TY  - EJOUR
A1  - Guérin, Jeanyves
TI  - Camus’s La Peste, an epidemic novel
T2  - Revue d'Histoire littéraire de la France 2 – 2022, 122e année, n° 2. varia
JO  - Revue d'Histoire littéraire de la France (ISSN 2105-2689), 22, 2 – 2022
DO  - 10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-13166-3.p.0137
SN  - 2105-2689
SP  - 137
EP  - 147
AB  - La Peste has been read as a political allegory. Oran represents occupied France, the plague represents Nazism, and the doctors represent the Resistance. But it can also be read as an epidemic novel. After examining the medical and literary sources, we will see how the author represents the disease. The present-day reader will find in the novel what the media have said about COVID-19: the importance of numbers, the dynamics of contagion, and the difficulties containing the disease.
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/05/18
DP  - Classiques Garnier
PB  - Classiques Garnier
CY  - Paris
KW  - Albert Camus, La Peste, epidemic novel, medical humanities
LA  - fre
UR  - https://classiques-garnier.com/revue-d-histoire-litteraire-de-la-france-2-2022-122e-annee-n-2-varia-camus-s-la-peste-an-epidemic-novel.html
Y2  - 2024/05/22
ER  -