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Camus

In Our Time: Philosophy

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The Plague Is a Real Playe

The plague is a real playe. The town of oron are at an undisclosed date, and while the authorities initially resist calling yiut a plague because of the consequences that would have,. eventually they are forced to close the town. So effectively, you have a novel which is about the reactions of a population. It's generally taken as an of fashism, for example. And then you have this rather peculiar figure of the journalist who's come from the outside to do a news report on the living conditions of the arabs. He considers he doesn't belong there, so only preoccupation is to get out. Eventually, two thirds of the way through the book, he

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