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Nights of Plague, with Nobel Prize Winner Orhan Pamuk

Intelligence Squared

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Exploring Literary Plagues: Influence and Reality

This chapter explores the formal features of plague literature, focusing on Albert Camus' 'The Plague' and its parallels with works by Daniel Defoe and Alessandro Manzoni. The speaker reflects on their personal experiences during the coronavirus pandemic and the contrasting portrayals of fear in fiction versus reality.

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