The plague by albert camus6/1/2023 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 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.
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