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The Plague by Albert Camus

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Author Biography

Name: Albert Camus
Birth Date: November 7, 1913
Death Date: January 4, 1960
Place of Birth: Mondovi, Algeria
Place of Death: Paris, France
Nationality: French
Gender: Male
Occupations: novelist, essayist, playwright

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Biography of Albert Camus
1313 words, approx. 4.4 pages
The French novelist, essayist, and playwright Albert Camus (1913-1960) was obsessed with the philosophical problems of the meaning of life and of man's search for values in a world without God. His work is distinguished by lucidity, moderation, and toler...
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Biography of Albert Camus
13612 words, approx. 45.4 pages
Albert Camus is one of the best-known twentieth-century French authors. Born and raised in North Africa, after the beginning of World War II he moved to Paris where he intended to pursue his career as a journalist and aspiring writer. In 1942, with the p...
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Biography of Albert Camus
5334 words, approx. 17.8 pages
Literary scholars place Albert Camus as North Africa's first writer of consequence. A pied-nort, or French citizen born in Algeria while it was a colony of France still, Camus emerged from a decidedly tough, underprivileged background to become one of th...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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The Plague Information
1,534 words, approx. 5 pages
The Plague (Fr. La Peste) is a novel by Albert Camus, published in 1947, that tells the story of medical workers finding solidarity in their labour as the Algerian city of Oran is swept by a plague. It asks a number of questions relating to the nature...


News and Journals
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The Boston Globe
The next plague
06/10/1993: 534 words, approx. 2 pages
BERLIN As the number of people infected with the AIDS virus climbs relentlessly around the world, the AIDS epidemic has taken on the characteristics of a slow plague. Uniquely in the annals of medicine, this disease now threatens to awaken a second...
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The Boston Globe
Elephant plague
03/01/1999: 500 words, approx. 2 pages
Stephen Reucroft and John Swain teach physics at Northeastern University. A deadly hemorrhagic disease is afflicting both African and Asian elephants in zoos across North America. Laura Richman of the Smithsonian National Zoological Park in Washington and her colleagues may have found the...
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AP News
In Bangladesh, the plagues are many
11/24/2007: 585 words, approx. 2 pages
The cyclone that ravaged Bangladesh's coast has left the country reeling, but for many here already weary of hardship it just seemed like the latest in a series of plagues afflicting the nation.There's the grinding poverty that forces some 60 million people to live on...
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The New York Observer
At U.S. Naval War College, Scholar Likens Iraq to Plague
6/14/2006: 538 words, approx. 2 pages
Yesterday the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, opened its annual conference on international strategy with a speech from the Navy Secretary in a vast hall, followed by a panel on American power composed of three scholars, all of whom had opposed the war...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Philip Mooney
1,260 words, approx. 4 pages
For Albert Camus the struggle to achieve meaning in human life must always be an affirmation of the love that engendered it. This conviction is the key thematic in Camus' novel, The Plague and finds expression in the character Tarrou. Tarrou's is a quest for total meaning in life: "What interests me is learning how to become a saint." Tarrou is definite about the path he must follow to reach the peace assuring meaning to life. It is the "path of sympathy," the way o...
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Critical Essay by IrÈne Finel-honigman
958 words, approx. 3 pages
In his notebooks and in his novel The Plague, Albert Camus often describes the city of Oran in negative terms. He stresses the qualities or characteristics Oran lacks, seeing in this absence a source of inspiration. In Camus' universe the cities of North Africa, Oran and Alger, serve an essential function. They are not only the background for his works but they are the embodiment of man's relationship with his environment. The topos of Camus' world revolves around a desert-city dichotom...
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Essay Grade: 92%
The Plague an Authentic Interpretation
5,084 words, approx. 17 pages
The Plague, by Camus, as an allegorical representation of the metaphysical rebellion of man against Creation, projects a three-fold movement and each of them is inextricably linked up through cause and effect. The first is the absurdity of existence, the second is the apogeal absurdity ensuing profound alienation and the third is man's inexorable fight against such a predicament.
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Essay Grade: 86%
Themes in Albert Camus' "The Plague."
2,459 words, approx. 8 pages
Provides biographical detail on the author Albert Camus. Explores major themes in his novel, "The Plague." Details how Camus attempts to portray the suffocation from which we all suffer, and the atmosphere of menace and exile in which we all live.
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Essay Grade: 91%
Isolation in "The Plague" and "The Metamorphosis"
1,502 words, approx. 5 pages
Compares isolation in Albert Camus' "The Plague" and Franz Kafka's "The Metamorphosis."
 


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