Die Pest
by Albert Camus
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Die Stadt Oran wird von rätselhaften Ereignissen heimgesucht. Die Ratten kommen aus den Kanälen und verenden auf den Straßen. Kurze Zeit später sterben die ersten Menschen an einem heimtückischen Fieber, und bald ist es nicht mehr zu leugnen: Die Pest wütet in der Stadt. Oran wird hermetisch abgeriegelt. Ein Entkommen ist nicht möglich.
«Sie gingen weiter ihren Geschäften nach, bereiteten Reisen vor, bildeten sich Meinungen. Wie hätten sie einen Gedanken an die Pest verschwenden sollen, die jede Zukunft unmöglich macht, Reisen storniert, den Austausch von Meinungen zum Schweigen bringt?»
Es sind Passagen wie diese, die Camus’ Klassiker zu neuer Wucht verhelfen, die ihn auch für die heutige Zeit unverzichtbar machen.
(Quelle: Rowohlt Verlag)
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Fiction, Plague, Plague in literature, Epidemics, Peste bubónica, FICTION / Classics, FICTION / Psychological, FICTION / Literary, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Medicine in Literature, French fiction, Psychological, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 12, Fiction, medical, France, fiction, Drama (dramatic works by one author), Romance literature, Fiction, psychological, Fiction, classics, Determination (Personality trait), Peste, Romans, nouvelles, Romance Frances, Novela, Disease Outbreaks, Fictional Works, Psychology, Psychological fictionPlaces
Oran (Algeria), Algeria, FranceTimes
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"The unusual events described in this chronicle occurred in 194-at Oran."
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The Plague (French: La Peste) is a novel by Albert Camus, published in 1947, that tells the story of a plague sweeping the French Algerian city of Oran. It asks a number of questions relating to the nature of destiny and the human condition. The characters in the book, ranging from doctors to vacationers to fugitives, all help to show the effects the plague has on a populace.
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