The Plague
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This article is about the Albert Camus novel. For the disease, see Black Death.
The Plague (fr. La Peste) is a novel by Albert Camus, published in 1947.
The story of medical workers finding solidarity in their labor as a North African city of the name of Oran is swept by a plague. Generally taken as a metaphoric treatment of the French resistance to Nazi occupation during World War II, it asks a number of questions relating to the nature of destiny and the human condition. The characters in the book, ranging from doctors to vacationers to fugitives, all help to show the effects the plague, a disaster, has on a populace.Template:Book-stub