Cholera, dengue fever, swine flu, avian flu, malaria, yellow fever, Evola ... The names of the plague can be several, may even mutate and, above all, be increasingly resistant to the responses of science to halt their advance. But not all belong to the order of science. When Albert Camus publishes
Plague (1947), makes following the dictates of a moral, humanitarian, claiming the values \u200b\u200bof solidarity in extreme conditions can emerge. And the states. But also exposes its opposite: in Cottard, one of the characters that inhabit the Oran in 1940, hit by the epidemic, manifest the traits of a wretch who uses the tragedy to escape the pursuit of justice. Who tells the story, we know at the end of the novel, is the doctor, Bernard Rieux. Among Cottard and outpatient Rieux a character full of meaning: Paneloux, the priest, who deposited the Christian faith in his cautious optimism. Any fever keeps a Bible in their dominance sense, stronger than even viral. But it is not appealing to God as we can get rid of it.
The allegorical meaning of the plague in Oran, however, could lead to numerically: the first dead rats can be counted, then, as they increase, are countless. But, unlike some official figures are reliable. When I first read the novel first imagined that those rats represented something like the sins of man, the symbolic side of the Algerian writer and detours designated evils on this earth. Today I'm not so sure. Book rats probably have a different reason, superior even to that of my first and enthusiastic reading. That rats are rats and no more than that, rats. And guests of the animal world and done, let us. Only we, the virus called man.
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