Maps
Where does The Plague take place? See how it relates to the places Camus called home.
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
Back to Reading Guide"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]
[1] Camus, Albert. The Plague. Trans. Stuart Gilbert. New York: A. A. Knopf, 1948. 3. Print.