From Oran to San Francisco: Shilts appropriates Camus.
| Publisher | West Chester University |
| Publication | College Literature |
| Subject | Education |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 0093-3139 |
| Issues per Year | 3 |
| Volume | v24 |
| Issue | n1 |
| Published | 1997-02-01 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Person | Criticism and interpretation | Albert Camus |
| Author | n/a | Steven G. Kellman |
| Person | Criticism and interpretation | Randy Shilts |
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Was not Camus's only fault, apart from being too widely read, that he was right too soon?
Bertrand Poirot-Delpech
Even before his narrative begins, Albert Camus offers a cue on how to read The Plague. He positions a statement by Daniel Defoe as epigraph to the entire work. Any novelist writing about epidemics bears the legacy of A Journal of the Plague Year, the 1722 text in which Defoe recounts the collective story of one city, in his case London, under the impact of a plague, and uses a narrator so self-effacing that his only concession to personal identity is the...
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