The Plague (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Albert Camus
- First Published: 1947
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Impressionistic realism
- Time of Work: The 1940’s
- Setting: Oran, Algeria
- Genres: Long fiction, Impressionistic literature
- Subjects: 1940’s, Doctors, Death or dying, Existentialism, Epidemics, Plague, Algeria or Algerians, Rats or mice
- Locales: Oran, Algeria
Characters Discussed
Bernard Rieux (behr-NAHR ryew), a physician and surgeon in Oran, Algeria, where a plague is claiming as many as three hundred lives a day. Dr. Rieux, a thirty- five-year-old man of great patience, fortitude, and unselfishness, represents the medical profession during the long siege of disease and deaths that strikes rich and poor alike and from which there is no reprieve. The plague means failure to Rieux because he can find no cure or relief for the sufferers. His attitude is characterized by his regard for his fellow people and his inability to cope with...
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