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The Plague (Albert Camus) - Coggle Diagram
The Plague (Albert Camus)
Albert Camus (Nov 7, 1913 - Jan 4, 1960)
Was a Novelist and political journalist.
Best known for books such as the stranger and the plague.
Became of the most important novelist in the 1940´s
Early life
Born in French Algeria, family with little money.
did well at school and was accepted in the university of algiers
He studied philosophy and was in a soccer team.
He left the team due to a tuberculosis in 1930.
Political life
He participed in political areas since very young.
Algerian people´s party
Communist Party
opposed french colonization
empowered french algerians in politics and work.
participant of the anarchist movement in France
Joined French resistance in WW2
To avoid Nazi occupation in Paris.
Also, he wrote a political commentary during the war.
he condemn th use of a bomb in Hiroshima.
Literary carrer
He worked with absurdism and extensialism
The elements are presented in almost all the books he wrote including the plague or the stranger.
As a french algerian, brought fresh and a outsider perspective of french literature.
during th 40´s and the 50´s, he was into acting and worked in theater.
Includes the fall
Exile and the kingdom
The plague
Was published Jan 10, 1947
Is a book about a plague that the french algerian city of Orán was suffering
Camus wrote the plague and was based in 1940, but historians say that between 1500´s and 1600´s, that population was reduced due to the bubonic plague.