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515 The Plague by Albert Camus (with Alice Kaplan and Laura Marris) | My Last Book with Alison Strayer

The History of Literature

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The Plague and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Alice Kaplan: I have a lot of trouble since COVID with timelines and dates, like with any trauma. But I think what COVID taught us is that there's a lot of value in an allegory that can be reassigned with every generation. Let's take a quick break and come back with the plague and the COVID-19 pandemic.

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