Albert Camus, the winner of Nobel Prize for literature in 1957, is an incontestable french author. The
Plague it''s a puzzling masterpiece. In the 1950''s Oran is found itself isolated from the world because of the plague. The city is then put in complete isolation in order to avoid the dissemination of the pest hole. How do the
inhabitants react to this pest hole? Some try to run away, some resign themselves, others take advantage of it. The more the time passes and the more the inhabitants are afraid that the plague will never disappear. Oran looks like a concentration camp where the life of each one is threatened. But, the time of the liberation comes at last. The inhabitants are free again. Having said that, for the doctor Rieux, the central character of the story, the plague still haunts his soul. Now that the plague was gone, it can return anytime. Rods are a part of the man. They strike whoever, whenever. If this literary work is a pure
fiction, it sends us back nevertheless to a
distressing reality: the second world war and the extermination camps. Except that, in this novel, the rod is the plague, not human beings. Reality is more distressing than fiction.