Joseph Grand and Tarrou join the "sanitary squads" in this novel months after thousands of rats begin to die in the streets of Oran.
One of this novel's characters recalls a book of train timetables memorized by his father; that man observes the balcony of an old man who spits at cats in the street. This novel features a bureaucrat who often exclaims "hats off!" and constantly rewrites the first sentence of a book in which a woman rides a horse through flowery avenues. An opera audience panics in this novel when the male soloist in Gluck's Orpheus and Eurydice stumbles and falls. Seeing Othon's son (*) die when Castel's serum fails prompts the second sermon in this novel delivered by Father Paneloux, and it sees the journalist Rambert try to escape with aid from the smuggler Cottard, who tries to hang himself near its start. Joseph Grand and Tarrou join the "sanitary squads" in this novel months after thousands of rats begin to die in the streets of Oran. Doctor Bernard Rieux is the protagonist of, for 10 points, what novel by Albert Camus about the titular epidemic?
One of this novel's characters recalls a book of train timetables memorized by his father; that man observes the balcony of an old man who spits at cats in the street.
The Plague [or La peste]