After Us
Dr. Rieux, Meet Dr. Fauci
- By Lynn Levin
(Anthony S. Fauci, M.D. NIAID Director. Photo: NIAID)
Seeing Albert Camus’s The Plague with 2020 Vision
In the summer of 2020, seventeen Drexel University students, many of them international students, Zoomed into my Great Works class to explore Albert Camus’s The Plague. The students found themselves amazed at how eerily this World War Two allegory paralleled our own struggle with Covid-19. Many characters in the novel endure quarantine, exile, and the pain of separation from loved ones, and so did a number of my students. Camus describes many of his characters’ actions as expressing the best of humanity; similarly, my students gained a sense of optimism as they observed the empathy and...