The plague novel you need to read is by Bachmann, not Camus
In Ingeborg Bachmann’s Malina, the plague isn’t a biological virus, it doesn’t cause lockdowns, but it is killing us
by Lyndsey Stonebridge
Lyndsey Stonebridge is professor of humanities and human rights at the University of Birmingham. Her book Writing and Righting: Literature in the Age of Human Rights will be published in November 2020, and she is currently writing a new book on Hannah Arendt for Jonathan Cape.
Written by Lyndsey Stonebridge