A major point of this novel is its questioning of freedom, as the characters only seem to understand love upon separation from each other. The charact
A major point of this novel is its questioning of freedom, as the characters only seem to understand love upon separation from each other. The character Cottard constantly fears arrest and punishment, while Tarrou's calm atheism contrasts with the fire and brimstone words of Father Paneloux, at whom the protagonist screams upon witnessing the death of a young boy. Opening with the death of the concierge at Dr. Rieux's building, for ten points, name this novel about humanity's reaction to widespread disease and hopelessness, written by Albert Camus
A major point of this novel is its questioning of freedom, as the characters only seem to understand love upon separation from each other.
The {Plague} (or {La Peste})