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@misc{literatureatlas-the-plague,
  author = {Literature Atlas},
  title = {The Plague},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://literature.interactiveatlas.org/works/the-plague},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

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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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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