Sampar
by Albert Camus, Nh. Dini
A haunting tale of human resilience in the face of unrelieved horror, Camus' novel about a bubonic plague ravaging the people of a North African coastal town is a classic of 20th-century literature.
The Nobel prize-winning Albert Camus, who died in 1960, could not have known how grimly current his existentialist novel of epidemic & death would remain. An immediate triumph when it was published in 1947, "The Plague" is in part an allegory of France's suffering under the Nazi occupation, & a story of bravery & determination against the precariousness of human existence.
Set in Algeria, The Plague is a powerful study of human life & its meaning in the face of a deadly virus that sweeps dispassionately thru the city, taking a vast percentage of the population with it. The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its victims to a swift horrifying death. Fear, isolation & claustrophobia follow as they are forced into quarantine. Each person responds in their own way to the lethal disease: some resign themselves to fate, some seek blame, & a few, like Dr. Rieux, resist the terror.
The Nobel prize-winning Albert Camus, who died in 1960, could not have known how grimly current his existentialist novel of epidemic & death would remain. An immediate triumph when it was published in 1947, "The Plague" is in part an allegory of France's suffering under the Nazi occupation, & a story of bravery & determination against the precariousness of human existence.
Set in Algeria, The Plague is a powerful study of human life & its meaning in the face of a deadly virus that sweeps dispassionately thru the city, taking a vast percentage of the population with it. The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its victims to a swift horrifying death. Fear, isolation & claustrophobia follow as they are forced into quarantine. Each person responds in their own way to the lethal disease: some resign themselves to fate, some seek blame, & a few, like Dr. Rieux, resist the terror.
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