The ending of The Plague focuses on the return of the disease, and how books can help people remember what has happened, providing a kind of collective memory. "Camus was writing at the end of ...

Although commissioned pre-pandemic, Penguin’s reissue of three Camus classics, including The Plague, The Outsider and The Fall, feels particualrly timely in light of our current situation. Having cut ...

Algerians who know the novel might have recognised Camus' warning against complacency at the very end of the book when he says that the plague bacillus - however the reader interprets it - never ...