In his 1947 novel, “The Plague,” Albert Camus reaches the philosophical conclusion that life is random and absurd. And today, this sentiment resonates more than ever.

Regular readers will recall that the Wyoming Doctor recommended in this space last week that we all read The Plague, the Albert Camus novel about how the people of an Algerian city react when the ...

Hmm. One spring a highly contagious disease arrives in a community. The authorities try to keep it quiet. But soon people are sick and dying. As quarantines are imposed, the ...

Hmm. One spring a highly contagious disease arrives in a community. The authorities try to keep it quiet. But soon people are sick and dying. As quarantines are imposed, the ...

In his novel “The Plague,” published in 1947, Albert Camus did not extend his imagined pestilence to the entire globe, like the coronavirus that is threatening the planet now.Camus had just ...

Camus’ eerily prescient 1947 novel — there’s even a mention of flattening the curve — is suspenseful, ... but the only means of fighting a plague is common decency. ...

Camus’ “Plague” demonstrates this pattern with one of the most memorably disgusting opening scenes in all of literature: When leaving his surgery on the morning of April 16, ...

Culture Coronavirus What Would Camus Do? On returning to his masterpiece ‘The Plague,’ and this time paying attention.

Nguyen found that Camus’s descriptions of the besieged town and its people — “the plague forced inactivity on them, limiting their movements to the same dull round inside the town,” Camus ...

In 1947, French author Albert Camus published "The Plague" ("La peste"), a novel about an epidemic of bubonic plague in the city of Oran in Algeria. The book remains in print today. Camus won the ...