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- Camus viewed plague as both a real-life phenomenon and a metaphor for the struggles of human existence, exploring this in his 1947 novel, The Plague.
- The novel tells the story of a cholera outbreak in the city of Oran, shedding light on how societies respond to epidemics.
- The article draws parallels between Camus's insights from the novel and lessons applicable to modern public health and ethical dilemmas, especially in light of the recent COVID-19 pandemic.
Article Abstract
For Albert Camus, plague was both a fact of life and a powerful metaphor for the human condition. Camus engaged most explicitly and extensively with the subject of plague in his 1947 novel, The Plague (La peste), which chronicles an outbreak of what is presumably cholera in the French-Algerian city of Oran. I often thought of this novel-and what it might teach us-during the recent COVID-19 pandemic. In this article, I discuss seven important insights from The Plague about epidemics, public health and morality.
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