‘There have been as many plagues as wars in history,” Albert Camus writes in The Plague (now an Amazon best-seller!), “yet always plagues and wars take people equally by surprise.” The latter example ...
Hello to readers who accepted my invitation to read the 1947 Albert Camus novel The Plague together, and discuss it. I expect to cover the book in four or five posts over the next week to 10 days. I ...
NJ.com: South Jersey group to explore ‘The Plague’ -- Albert Camus’ 1947 view
What message does Albert Camus’ novel “The Plague” have for the post-Holocaust world and today’s COVID-19 environment? That question and others will be explored in a 90-minute online Zoom workshop ...
South Jersey group to explore ‘The Plague’ -- Albert Camus’ 1947 view
The Forward: Like Albert Camus, Zelenskyy has learned to resist the plague of the absurd
When the novel coronavirus claimed the world’s attention in 2020, so too did a novel by Albert Camus. With the quickening of the pandemic, “The Plague” became an item almost as essential as toilet ...
Like Albert Camus, Zelenskyy has learned to resist the plague of the absurd
In 1948, Stephen Spender wrote for the Book Review about Albert Camus’s “The Plague,” a novel about an epidemic spreading across the French Algerian city of Oran. “The Plague” is a parable and sermon, ...
Los Angeles Times: Albert Camus’ ‘The Plague’ and our own Great Reset
In his novel “The Plague,” published in 1947, Albert Camus did not extend his imagined pestilence to the entire globe, like the coronavirus that is threatening ...