Cliffs Notes on Camus' The Plague

by Gary K. Carey

Nobel prize-winning Albert Camus was an existentialist whose view of humanity and the human condition suffered from a large brushstroke of bleakness. This book concerns a doctor who is called to care for people during a growing epidemic.

74 pages, Paperback

First published October 30, 1985

Reviews

[janet wakefield]

Make the connections with the Pandemic... interesting!

[Carol]

Excellent orientation to understanding the work

I have been reading The Plague during the COVID-19 epidemic. The events and psychology run the same courses in a similar political environment that imprisons the people of Oran from both the plague and evil. An excellent analysis.

[John]

I never said I understood any of this stuff.

[Jonathan Brammer]

Meh. Not a good idea to use this as your guide. Way too much emphasis on absurdism and the immediate historical allegory of WWII.