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Are We the Plague for Nature?

Kuruvilla Pandikattu

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The Plague by the existentialist thinker Albert Camus is a powerful and prophetic novel about a plague epidemic in the large Algerian city of Oran. Published in French in 1947 as La Peste and in English in 1948, as The Plague, it is set sometime in the 1940s. The author doesn’t provide an exact year, but he describes in vivid detail the pain and suffering that strikes the lives of rich and poor alike.

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The Plague by the existentialist thinker Albert Camus is a powerful and prophetic novel about a plague epidemic in the large Algerian city of Oran. Published in French in 1947 as La Peste and in English in 1948, as The Plague, it is set sometime in the 1940s. The author doesn’t provide an exact year, but he describes in vivid detail the pain and suffering that strikes the lives of rich and poor alike.

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The Plague by the existentialist thinker Albert Camus is a powerful and prophetic novel about a plague epidemic in the large Algerian city of Oran. Published in French in 1947 as La Peste and in English in 1948, as The Plague, it is set sometime in the 1940s. The author doesn’t provide an exact year, but he describes in vivid detail the pain and suffering that strikes the lives of rich and poor alike.

Key concepts: Plague (disease), Existentialism, History, Ancient history, Genealogy, Geography, Political science, Law

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