Maps and Photos

Maps

Where does The Plague take place? See how it relates to the places Camus called home.

Algeria map, circa 1945, United States War Department

Map of Algeria, circa 1945 (https://www.loc.gov/resource/g5701s.ct003445/?r=-0.04,0.576,0.49,0.208,0)

Photos

Visualize the places in The Plague and important settings in Camus' life.

A collection of postcards that depict the neighborhood where Camus grew up in Algiers (Le Quartier de Belcourt)
A photograph of the port of Oran, taken in 1943

"For its ordinariness is what strikes one first about the town of Oran, which is merely a large French port on the Algerian coast, headquarters of the Prefect of a French Department. The town itself, let us admit, is ugly."^[1]

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[1] Camus, Albert. The Plague. Trans. Stuart Gilbert. New York: A. A. Knopf, 1948. 3. Print.

The Plague, Albert Camus

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