In his 1948 novel “The Plague” — sales of which have ticked upward during the Covid-19 crisis – French author Albert Camus reflects on the nature of outbreak and its relation to the human capacity for surprise: “Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world; yet somehow we find it hard to believe in ones that crash down on our heads from a blue sky. There have been as many plagues as wars in history; yet, always plagues and wars take people equally by surprise.”
In his 1948 novel “The Plague” — sales of which have ticked upward during the Covid-19 crisis – French author Albert Camus reflects on the nature of outbreak and its relation to the human capacity for surprise: “Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world; yet somehow we find it hard to believe in ones that crash down on our heads from a blue sky. There have been as many plagues as wars in history; yet, always plagues and wars take people equally by surprise.”
