The Plague

Albert Camus · 1947 CE · Novel · French · Contemporary

Rats die in the streets of Oran, then people do, and the authorities close the gates. A doctor, a journalist trying to get back to the woman he loves, a clerk and a priest form sanitary squads and keep working through a quarantine with no end in view. A sealed city and the men who fight without hope of victory; decency as revolt.

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• parallels ↑ The Book of Job
  Anonymous · c. 500 BCE · Scripture

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