Why the work of a writer in France of another era strikes a chord with our present predicament | The Indian Express

Why the work of a writer in France of another era strikes a chord with our present predicament | The Indian Express

Why the work of a writer in France of another era strikes a chord with our present predicament

Written by Nirupama Subramanian | Updated: May 5, 2020 at 4:50 am

The allegory in Albert Camus’s ‘The Plague’ has to be read literally for the amazing exactness with which it describes the world at this time, while the underlying story about human conduct in war-time France holds up to us a mirror about the moral diseases of our own times.