![]() ![]() Far from creating a barrier separating fiction from reality, this reading allowed us to establish several links with our current situation. Nonetheless, we have taken this approach relying on La Peste (Albert Camus, 1947), a novel based on a fictional epidemic of plague in the Algerian town of Oran. For such a purpose, especially if we wish to draw some parallels between past epidemics and COVID-19, historical records seemed to be more suitable than literary works. ![]() Leaving apart the aspects more linked to medicine and health sciences, we focus here on analysing how epidemics force people to change their habits, what type of emotions and behaviours they promote, and which roles are played by different social actors. However, as epidemics have affected humans since our origins, many before us have described how significantly they compromise human lives. COVID-19 represents one of the most challenging global health issues in modern times. ![]()
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