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Introduction
Author’s Name: Albert Camus
Book’s Name: The Plague
Genre: Philosophical Novel
Language: French, English
About the Author
Albert Camus was a French philosopher, novelist, and journalist who lived from November 7, 1913, until January 4, 1960. He won the Nobel Prize in Literary works at the age of 44, making him the second-youngest winner in history. Among his works are The Plague, The Plague, The Rebel, The Stranger, and The Fall, Sisyphus' Myth.
Albert Camus was a French philosopher, novelist, and journalist who lived from November 7, 1913, until January 4, 1960. He won the Nobel Prize in Literary works at the age of 44, making him the second-youngest winner in history. Among his works are The Plague, The Plague, The Rebel, The Stranger, and The Fall, Sisyphus' Myth.
About the Book
Albert Camus' novel The Plague is a work of fiction. It was published in 1947 and relates the narrative of a disease that spread across the French Algerian city of Oran through the eyes of a narrator. Until the start of the last chapter, Chapter 5 of Part 5, the narrator is unknown. The novel offers a picture of life in Oran as viewed through the author's singular absurdist perspective.
Albert Camus' novel The Plague is a work of fiction. It was published in 1947 and relates the narrative of a disease that spread across the French Algerian city of Oran through the eyes of a narrator. Until the start of the last chapter, Chapter 5 of Part 5, the narrator is unknown. The novel offers a picture of life in Oran as viewed through the author's singular absurdist perspective.
Book Summary
The Plague is a novel about a bubonic plague crisis that occurred in the 1940s in the French-Algerian port city of Oran. The unidentified first-person narrator primarily pursues Dr. Bernard Rieux. Rieux observes a huge influx of dying rats throughout the town, and soon tens of thousands of rats are dying in the open.
The public becomes worried, and the government eventually arranges for rat corpses to be cremated on a daily basis. M. Michel, the caretaker for Dr. Rieux's office building, has a weird fever and dies soon after the rat plague has passed.
The sickness appears to be bubonic plague, according to Dr. Rieux and his colleague Dr. Castel. They pleading with the government to act, but the authorities delay until the death toll is so high that the pandemic is unavoidable. Finally, the gates are shut and Oran is quarantined.
The villagers experience emotions of exile and desire for absent loved ones as a result of their unexpected isolation, with each individual believing that their pain is unique. A Jesuit priest, Father Paneloux, speaks, claiming that the epidemic is a god's wrath for Oran's crimes.
Raymond Rambert, a foreign journalist, attempts to leave Oran and reunite with his wife in Paris but is hindered by bureaucracy and the dependability of the criminal underground. Cottard, a guy who committed an unknown crime in the past and has since lived in continuous paranoia, assists him in his efforts.
Cottard is the sole resident who welcomes the epidemic since it brings the rest of the population down to his level of fear and isolation, plus it allows him to make a little fortune smuggling.
The Plague is a novel about a bubonic plague crisis that occurred in the 1940s in the French-Algerian port city of Oran. The unidentified first-person narrator primarily pursues Dr. Bernard Rieux. Rieux observes a huge influx of dying rats throughout the town, and soon tens of thousands of rats are dying in the open.
The public becomes worried, and the government eventually arranges for rat corpses to be cremated on a daily basis. M. Michel, the caretaker for Dr. Rieux's office building, has a weird fever and dies soon after the rat plague has passed.
The sickness appears to be bubonic plague, according to Dr. Rieux and his colleague Dr. Castel. They pleading with the government to act, but the authorities delay until the death toll is so high that the pandemic is unavoidable. Finally, the gates are shut and Oran is quarantined.
The villagers experience emotions of exile and desire for absent loved ones as a result of their unexpected isolation, with each individual believing that their pain is unique. A Jesuit priest, Father Paneloux, speaks, claiming that the epidemic is a god's wrath for Oran's crimes.
Raymond Rambert, a foreign journalist, attempts to leave Oran and reunite with his wife in Paris but is hindered by bureaucracy and the dependability of the criminal underground. Cottard, a guy who committed an unknown crime in the past and has since lived in continuous paranoia, assists him in his efforts.
Cottard is the sole resident who welcomes the epidemic since it brings the rest of the population down to his level of fear and isolation, plus it allows him to make a little fortune smuggling.
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Meanwhile, Rieux battles the disease with the help of Jean Tarrou, another Oran tourist, and Joseph Grand, an elderly municipal clerk who misses his ex-wife and fights every day with the opening sentence of a novel he is attempting to write.
Tarrou forms an anti-plague sanitation league, which attracts a large number of volunteers. When Rambert discovers that Dr. Rieux is also separated from his wife he resolves to stay and battle the plague. After a few months, the population understands the epidemic as a national tragedy and loses their selfishness in their suffering. Everyone becomes tired and dejected, and the death toll has reached such a high level that the authorities have no choice except to cremate the dead.
The disease strikes the little son of M. Othon, the stern local magistrate, and Rieux and his friends, including Father Paneloux, watch him suffer and die. Paneloux is shocked by the death of the kid, and he gives a second speech, this time stating that the horrors of the epidemic offer only two options: believe everything (about Christianity) or deny everything.
Paneloux becomes ill and dies soon after, despite the fact that he shows no signs of the epidemic.
Tarrou tells Rieux about how he's spent his life battling the death sentence and "fighting the plague" in all of its manifestations. The two men go swimming for a short break before returning to work. Grand catches the disease but recovers unexpectedly. Other patients begin to heal, and the pandemic begins to go away, but Tarrou becomes sick.
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He falls victim to the illness after a hard battle. The residents of the community gradually rediscover their faith and begin to cheer. Only Cottard is disturbed by the end of the disease, and when the town's gates reopen, he goes insane and begins firing a gun into the street at random until he is captured.
Grand finishes his manuscript and writes a letter to his ex-wife. Rambert's wife arrives at Oran with him, but Dr. Rieux finds that his wife has passed away in the sanatorium. The residents immediately resume their daily routines, attempting to maintain the impression that nothing has changed.
Dr. Rieux exposes himself as the narrator of the journal, which he composed as a memorial to the plague victims and the workers' hardships. He understands that the plague's success is just temporary, since the bacillus germ may remain dormant for years.
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