The Plague (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Albert Camus
- First Published: 1947
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Impressionistic realism
- Time of Work: 1940’s
- Genres: Long fiction, Impressionistic literature
- Subjects: 1940’s, Doctors, Death or dying, Existentialism, Epidemics, Plague, Algeria or Algerians, Rats or mice
- Locales: Oran, Algeria
Places Discussed
*Oran. Algerian port city on the Mediterranean Sea. From its opening paragraphs, The Plague calls attention to the banality, even the ugliness, of the Algerian city in which the events that Rieux chronicles take place. Though the real Oran, where Camus, a native of Algeria, lived from 1941-1942, was not nearly so bleak, Rieux’s city is an ugly, soulless place devoid of trees, pigeons, and gardens and grimly devoted to commerce. Unlike the historical Oran, Rieux’s version is secured by municipal gates, and the official opening of the ramparts at the...
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