the plague albert camus: original edition

A novel by writer Albert Camus, published in 1947, tells the story of a plague that ravages the Algerian city of Oran. The novel raises a number of questions regarding the nature of fate and the human condition. All of the book's characters, including doctors, vacationers, and refugees, help show the public the effects of the plague. It is believed that the novel is based on the cholera pandemic that killed a large proportion of the population of Oran in 1849 following the French colonization, but the novel takes place in the 1940s. Oran and its surroundings were hit by epidemics several times before Camus published this novel. According to a research report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the plague struck Oran in 1556 and 1678, but all subsequent outbreaks, in 1921 (185 cases), 1931 (76 cases), and 1944 (95 cases), were far from the described pandemic degree. in the novel. The Plague is considered an existential classic, despite Camus' objections to the classification. The pace of the narration is similar to that of Kafka, especially in the novel The Trial whose individual sentences can carry several meanings, the material often resonating clearly as a stark representation of the immense consciousness and human condition. Camus included a dumb character misreading the trial account as a mystery novel as an indirect homage. The novel was read as an allegorical treatment of the French resistance against Nazi occupation during World War II. In addition, it also depicts the human reaction to "absurdity". The plague represents how the world deals with the philosophical connotation of absurdity, a theory contributed by Camus