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Fiction · Philosophical fiction

The Plague

Albert Camus
1947 · 308 pages

Rats die in the streets of an Algerian port, the gates shut, and a doctor named Rieux keeps working. Camus meant the German occupation, and every epidemic since has proved him right.

★ 8.6