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2020年4月22日星期三

Translating, teaching and reading Camus’ “The Plague” during Covid-19. A JOURNAL OF THE PLAGUE YEAR

CULTURE | "A mysterious illness appears out of nowhere. Case counts rise exponentially, as authorities attempt to downplay the severity of the disease. Transportation is cut off, and many are left stranded in unfamiliar places, separated from loved ones. 

This is not a recapitulation of current events — it is the beginning of “The Plague,” a 1947 novel by French-Algerian writer and philosopher Albert Camus. During the coronavirus pandemic, Laura Marris ’10 is working on a ne…… 
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Translating, teaching and reading Camus’ “The Plague” during Covid-19

A mysterious illness appears out of nowhere. Case counts rise exponentially, as authorities attempt to downplay the severity of the disease. Transportation is cut off, and many are left stranded in unfamiliar places, separated from loved ones. This is not a recapitulation of current events — it ...

“A brilliant account of the last major outbreak of bubonic plague in Britain—and it can still educate readers three centuries later.” BBC on what Daniel Defoe's A JOURNAL OF THE PLAGUE YEAR can teach us about Covid-19.