States of Plague: Reading Albert Camus in a Pandemic
Alice Kaplan, "States of Plague: Reading Albert Camus in a Pandemic"
English | ISBN: 0226815536 | 2022 | 152 pages | PDF | 552 KB
English | ISBN: 0226815536 | 2022 | 152 pages | PDF | 552 KB
States of Plague examines Albert Camus’s novel as a palimpsest of pandemic life, an uncannily relevant account of the psychology and politics of a public health crisis.
As one of the most discussed books of the COVID-19 crisis, Albert Camus’s classic novel The Plague has become a new kind of literary touchstone. Surrounded by terror and uncertainty, often separated from loved ones or unable to travel, readers sought answers within the pages of Camus’s 1947 tale about an Algerian city gripped by an epidemic. Many found in it a story about their own lives—a book to shed light on a global health crisis.
In thirteen linked chapters told in alternating voices, Alice Kaplan and Laura Marris hold the past and present of
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