Oran is a major coastal city located in the northwest of Algeria. It is considered the second most important city of Algeria, after the capital, Algiers, because of its population and commercial, indu
The Plague is a 1947 absurdist novel by Albert Camus. The plot centers around the French Algerian city of Oran as it combats a plague outbreak and is put under a city-wide quarantine. The novel presen
Oran
…Albert Camus' 1939 essay The Minotaur describes life in Oran. Albert Camus' 1947 novel The Plague presents a fictional tale of observations of a physician during the emergence and recession of bubonic plague in the 1940s in Oran. El Gallardo Español…
Cover of the first edition
View of Oran in 1943
Sidewalk plaque with a quote from The Plague in New York City