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What Camus’s "The Plague" can teach us about this pandemic

What Camus’s "The Plague" can teach us about this pandemic

Released Wednesday, 22nd July 2020
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What Camus’s "The Plague" can teach us about this pandemic

What Camus’s "The Plague" can teach us about this pandemic

What Camus’s "The Plague" can teach us about this pandemic

What Camus’s "The Plague" can teach us about this pandemic

Wednesday, 22nd July 2020
 1 person rated this episode
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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 CamusSimone Weil: An Anthology, by Simone WeilAlbert 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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