In this novel, Rambert is a journalist who wishes to escape to Paris to see his beloved, and a sermon calling the title event a punishment by God is delivered by Father Paneloux.
One character in this novel refuses to use a watch, and instead tells time by moving peas from one pan to another at a constant rate. One character in this novel runs away from home after seeing his prosecutor father condemn a prisoner to death in court. An old man in this novel enjoys spitting off his balcony at cats. One character in this novel wants people to say "Hats off!" in response to this description of a woman riding a mare down the Bois de Boulogne, the opening line of a novel he never completes. In this novel, Rambert is a journalist who wishes to escape to Paris to see his beloved, and a sermon calling the title event a punishment by God is delivered by Father Paneloux. Grand and Tarrou join a "sanitary squad" head by Dr. Bernard Rieux in, for 10 points, what novel about a deadly outbreak of disease in Oran, by Albert Camus?
One character in this novel refuses to use a watch, and instead tells time by moving peas from one pan to another at a constant rate.
The Plague [or La Peste]