To every thing unhappiness is good, and if someone takes advantage of the epidemic which, all over the world, breaks down their curtain of suffering, loneliness and mourning, it may be Albert Camus - whose famous novel La Plague has seen its sales quadrupled in recent weeks. Even before the head of state solemnly invited them to read, many French people spontaneously dusted off this masterpiece which earned the writer his first great literary success. No doubt he will remind some of the class memories, since Camus almost always invites himself to the baccalaureate.
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Why re-read Camus? First there is this disturbing resemblance, some would say prophetic. Oran, early 1940s: in the recklessness of the emerging spring, the city lightly watches it fall on it a plague that we are reluctant to designate by name. It takes all the pugnacity of the doctors for the prefect to decide to take the necessary measures. All over
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