Camus lived through the Nazi occupation of France, a time that he felt was like a plague – an unspeakable evil that couldn’t be defeated through conventional means and that left many people struggling. At first, things seem to be alright, with people obeying curfew and the like, but very soon the plague lasts for longer than their supplies can, and the plague becomes a much bigger problem than expected.īut below the surface of the obvious story of a plague that is ravaging a town is the metaphor that Camus is trying to relay to us. Before long, the whole town (which is located near a port and is miles away from the next settlement) is shut down completely – nobody in, nobody out. The name stuck with me for a very long time, and I eventually got my hands on a copy and managed to read it.Īlbert Camus places this story in Algeria, in a town that is suddenly ravaged by a plague that starts with the rats and spreads to the population with insane rapidity. My father studied Mediterranean Studies at University a decade before I was born, and when I grew older and started to understand concepts like philosophy, he told me about this book and how he had read it when he was at university and thought I should read it one day too. Maybe the year 2020 wasn’t the right time to read this one.
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