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The Plague

by Albert Camus · 1947

Literary Fiction · ranked #41 in category

A bubonic plague descends on the Algerian port city of Oran, and the citizens find themselves quarantined in an absurd situation of suffering, solidarity and moral reckoning. Camus's most widely read novel is both a realistic chronicle of epidemic and an allegory of occupied France — and of any human community confronting an indifferent catastrophe that demands a collective response.

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Category
Literary Fiction
First published
1947 · 1940s
Author
Albert Camus
Standing
Essential Read

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