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

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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Release date

Lydbog: 22. juli 2020