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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

FromFuture Perfect


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

FromFuture Perfect

ratings:
Length:
65 minutes
Released:
Jul 22, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

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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Released:
Jul 22, 2020
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