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Sometimes we turn to novels to make sense of our world, and sometimes to escape it. Yet in hard times, we often ask them to do both at once: to make sense of our world, all the better to escape it. The boom in book sales that has accompanied the global spread of coronavirus reflects, at least in part, this dual yearning. Amid all the new books bought and read, fiction has seen
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Camus the Christian?
Albert Camus - The Plague (Fr. La Peste) is a novel by Albert Camus, published in 1947, that tells the story of medical workers finding solidarity in their labour as the Algerian
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Albert Camus - Wikipedia
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Albert Camus's Philosophy of Communication: Making Sense in an Age of Absurdity By Brent C. Sleasman
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The Plague: 9780679720218: Albert Camus, Stuart Gilbert: Books
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The Fall by Albert Camus
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Publishers report sales boom in novels about fictional epidemics, Coronavirus
The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt by Albert Camus, Paperback
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The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays by Albert Camus
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The Plague Free Summary by Albert Camus