After the solitude of Le Panelier, there came a complete change of lifestyle for Camus from November 1943. His work on the chronicle is delayed. The publication of La Peste is a liberation for the writer. The comparison between the first version and the definitive version, the intertextual links to the articles in Combat and the lectures given in 1946, show how much the novel owes to the post-war period. But rather than a novel of the Liberation, could La Peste be a novel of lost illusions?
