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The Plague

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The Plague (La Peste, 1947) is Albert Camus's novel of a fictional cholera epidemic sealing off the Algerian city of Oran, read on publication as an allegory of the French experience under Nazi occupation and resistance, and read since as a meditation on collective suffering and solidarity more broadly.

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General 1
Original Language
French 1
Composed, From (Year)
from 1947 1
Composed, To (Year)Sourced to the subject's own account
to 1947 2
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Albert Camus, Authors
Source Albert Camus, The Plague (1947)

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Source The Plague (Wikipedia)tier 2
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1. The Plague (Wikipedia)
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    is a 1947 absurdist novel by Albert Camus.
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2. Albert Camus, The Plague (1947)
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