![]() He has read enough about the structure of plagues and transmissions from animals to humans to know that something is afoot. The rats are removed – and the town heaves a sigh of relief but Dr Rieux suspects that this is not the end. The inhabitants accuse the authorities of not acting fast enough. ![]() Soon the town is overrun with the mysterious deaths of thousands of rats, who stumble out of their hiding places in a daze, let out a drop of blood from their noses and expire. ![]() Then, with the pacing of a thriller, the horror begins. ‘Oran is an ordinary town,’ writes Camus, ‘nothing more than a French Prefecture on the coast of Algeria.’ The inhabitants lead busy money-centered and denatured lives they barely notice that they are alive. ![]() The book – written in sparse, haunting prose – takes us through a catastrophic outbreak of a contagious disease in the lightly fictionalised town of Oran on the Algerian coast, as seen through the eyes of the novel’s hero, a Doctor Rieux, a version of Camus himself.Īs the novel opens, an air of eerie normality reigns. ![]()
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