6/21/2023 0 Comments The plague albertIt is an allegory for the battle against fascist and authoritarian government in France. Rather, Camus biographer Maria Ardizio tells us that its success was driven in part by a French desire for novels that mythologised France’s tumultuous experience in World War II.* The battle against plague in Oran, after all, is not just a battle against disease. This success was not due to a sudden French interest in bacterial disease. The Plague was an immediate hit in France. The story weaves through such topics as the functions of elected authorities and public officials, the impacts of restricted movement, the scourge of profiteering, the shame of prison conditions, the need for personal responsibility, and the vitality of collective solidarity. Camus, then a rising star in French artistic and intellectual circles, used the book to explore the role of the state and the role of the citizen in a public health crisis. The Plague tells a tale of a contagion descending upon the Algerian city of Oran. "The only means of fighting a plague is - common decency."ĭuring and just after World War II, Albert Camus wrote The Plague.
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