16. On the themes of language and communication in Albert Camus' The Plague

And the underlying influence of technology in the spread of nihilism and abstraction

Camus attending to his correspondence, 1957. ‘The city was no longer connected to the rest of the country by the usual means of communication,’ the narrator in The Plague states, ‘and on the other, a new decree forbade the exchanging of all correspondence, to prevent letters from becoming vectors of infection.’

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The theme of illness and disease in The P…