What Camus’s "The Plague" can teach us about this pandemic
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Co-host Sean Illing talks to Robert Zaretsky, professor of French history at the University of Houston, about Albert Camus’s novel The Plague.
Relevant resources:
The Plague, by Albert Camus
Simone Weil: An Anthology, by Simone Weil
Albert Camus: Elements of a Life, by Robert Zaretsky
Featuring:
Robert Zaretsky, professor of history at the University of Houston
Host:
Sean Illing (@seanilling), senior interviews writer, Vox
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