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States of Plague - Reading Albert Camus in a Pandemic (Hardcover)
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States of Plague - Reading Albert Camus in a Pandemic (Hardcover)
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States of Plague examines Albert Camus's novel as a palimpsest of
pandemic life, an uncannily relevant account of the psychology and
politics of a public health crisis. As one of the most discussed
books of the COVID-19 crisis, Albert Camus's classic novel The
Plague has become a new kind of literary touchstone. Surrounded by
terror and uncertainty, often separated from loved ones or unable
to travel, readers sought answers within the pages of Camus's 1947
tale about an Algerian city gripped by an epidemic. Many found in
it a story about their own lives-a book to shed light on a global
health crisis. In thirteen linked chapters told in alternating
voices, Alice Kaplan and Laura Marris hold the past and present of
The Plague in conversation, discovering how the novel has reached
people in their current moment. Kaplan's chapters explore the
book's tangled and vivid history, while Marris's are drawn to the
ecology of landscape and language. Through these pages, they find
that their sense of Camus evolves under the force of a new reality,
alongside the pressures of illness, recovery, concern, and care in
their own lives. Along the way, Kaplan and Marris examine how the
novel's original allegory might resonate for a new generation of
readers who have experienced a global pandemic. They describe how
they learned to contemplate the skies of a plague spring, to
examine the body politic and the politics of immunity. Both
personal and eloquently written, States of Plague uncovers for us
the mysterious way a novel can imagine the world during a crisis
and draw back the veil on other possible futures.
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