Camus’s La Peste, an epidemic novel
- Publication type: Journal article
- Journal: Revue d'Histoire littéraire de la France
2 – 2022, 122e année, n° 2. varia - Author: Guérin (Jeanyves)
- Pages: 393 to 403
- Journal: Journal of French Literary History
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.
- CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques
- ISBN: 978-2-406-13166-3
- EAN: 9782406131663
- ISSN: 2105-2689
- DOI: 10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-13166-3.p.0137
- Publisher: Classiques Garnier
- Online publication: 05-18-2022
- Periodicity: Quarterly
- Language: French
- Keyword: Albert Camus, La Peste, epidemic novel, medical humanities
