![]() ![]() It is a chilling fable and, like Camus, Bartlett is fascinated by how people react to a crisis. Gradually, the city is infested with rats, people die in vast numbers and, although the medical authorities are in denial, a plague is declared and the city quarantined from the outside world. ![]() ![]() It starts with the discovery of a dead rat on a landing. Dr Rieux then takes up the story to offer eyewitness accounts of what happened over one particular spring and summer. Bartlett’s version takes place in an unspecified locale and begins with a public enquiry into a disaster that has overtaken a perfectly average city where life is both “frenetic and vacant”. Camus set his story in the Algerian coastal town of Oran. ![]()
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