![]() ![]() ![]() While we are still waiting for general panic to set in, we meet a young reporter named Raymond Rambert who’s sniffing about town for a story. Before the general panic sets in, we meet some of our cast of characters: Rieux’s invalid wife, who is quickly sent away to be treated while his mother comes to take her place, and a nameless old asthmatic Spaniard, a patient of the doctor who is also quite the odd duck and is positively gleeful about this rat business. Rieux, but not as much as the weird way in which the rats die (with some manic spinning and not a little spurting of blood). And not just a few rats we’re talking big honkin’ piles of rats. The mess starts when rats everywhere die. ![]() The story is narrated to us by an odd, nameless narrator strangely obsessed with objectivity, who tends to focus on a man named Dr. This particular plague happens in a Algerian port town called Oran in the 1940s. From the title, you know this book is about a plague. ![]()
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