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**__States of Plague__ examines Albert Camus’s novel __The Plague__ as a palimpsest of our own pandemic life, its account of the psychology and politics of quarantine uncannily relevant to our time.** One of the most discussed books of the COVID-19 crisis, Albert Camus’s classic novel __The Plague__ has been a touchstone for readers over the past two years. As people were surrounded by terror and uncertainty, often separated from loved ones or unable to travel, many sought answers within the pages of Camus’s tale about an Algerian city gripped by an epidemic in 1947. People began to read it as 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 __The Plague__ in conversation, discovering how the novel has reached people in our current moment. Kaplan’s chapters explore the book’s tangled and vivid history, while Marris’s are drawn to the ecology of landscape and language. Through these pages, they find that their sense of Camus evolves under the force of a new reality, alongside the pressures of illness, recovery, concern, and care in their own

Who reads States of Plague : Reading Albert Camus in a Pandemic?

Author

Alice Kaplan; Laura Marris

Publisher

The University of Chicago Press

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9780226815534

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Literary Criticism, Memoir