This exhibit features recorded readings of selections from Albert Camus’ The Plague by SCU faculty, along with their reflections on the passages they chose for this exhibit.

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To access the recordings and reflections, scroll down to the links available through the photos below, or hover over the Faculty Links tab. 

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Some background on this exhibit
Under the auspices of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, and leadership of David DeCosse,
a group of faculty from across the university met bi-weekly during spring quarter to discuss our
reading of Albert Camus’ The Plague. While our varied disciplinary backgrounds (law, religious
studies, English, mathematics, ethics, economics, theology) informed those discussions, the
novel’s narrator and cast of characters also led each participant to reflect on their own
experiences of the early stages of sheltering in place, and then, in late May, on the events
surrounding the murder of George Floyd on May 25th in Minneapolis.
To capture the insights and sense of community that emerged in those sessions, eight members
of our reading group each recorded one or more excerpts from the novel that spoke to them
during our reading, and then offered a brief reflection on what led them to select their
passages.

(Camus’ The Plague was originally published in 1947 (English translation, 1948). We are
working with the 1991 Vintage International edition of the novel.)