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Neverending fight: Albert Camus, author of La Peste, uses a plague to explore humanity and belief in God in fighting a catastrophe. Another layer of meaning may be the plague is a symbol of Nazi Germany’s occupation of France in World War II. Photo: Keystone-France/Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images
ABYSSINIA

‘Salvation is too big a word for me’

Drew Forrest examines the battle between dogmatic faith and practical humanism in French master Albert Camus’ finest novel, ‘The Plague’

  • Drew Forrest
6 min read
Jan Guillou declines an invitation for probing in Anna Odell’s Undersökningen (The Examination). (Courtesy of Göteborg Film Festival)
ALBERT CAMUS

The Insider’s guide to travelling without moving: Power, empathy and threads that connect at the Göteborg Film Festival

Niren Tolsi returns to a time before the pandemic brought on travel restrictions to ponder what is being lost in a world that is confined to itself

  • Niren Tolsi
15 min read
(John McCann/M&G)
AIDS

Lessons from ‘La Peste’: Camus and Covid-19

‘The Plague’, an allegory of the Nazi occupation of France in World War II, is about a town’s fight against an epidemic. It’s a relevant read in the times of Covid-19

  • Cameron Joseph
6 min read