The Plague is formally composed of five sections, the third and central climactic part is framed symmetrically by the other four. There are clear parallels between this neatly divided five-fold structure and the pattern of French classical tragedy with the Aristotelean aesthetic principles of unity of time and place.
The Plague
By Albert Camus
- Table of contents
- Biography
- Plot Summary
- Background
- Camus and the Absurd
- Synopsis
- Introduction
- First Part
- Second Part
- Third Part
- Fourth Part
- Fifth Part
- Commentary
- Themes
- Critical Approaches
- Sample Questions
- Further Reading