![]() ![]() The attitude of the priest, who first regards it as a scourge of God against the wickedness of modern life of the journalist Rambert, for whom it means separation from the woman he loves of Tarrou, for whom it becomes the occasion of realizing his passion to correct an injustice at the center of society. The plague becomes thus a kind of laboratory for studying attitudes towards itself. As far as possible he isolates his people from their private lives, and thrusts them into their public situation. Against the background of events, he creates various attitudes of human beings toward the plague, heightened by touches of intimate observation. Camus is a master of the Defoe-like narrative. The message is not the highest form of creative art, but it may be of such importance for our time that to dismiss it in the name of artistic criticism would be to blaspheme against the human spirit. “The Plague” is a parable and sermon, and should be considered as such. In this difficult time, people are trapped by these circumstances, they have to choose between fighting for life by any means and accepting this situation as is. Peoples lives are threatened, people come across death face to face. 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 novel is set in a city infected with a terrible disease. ![]()
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