Allegory In Albert Camus The Plague

Camus’s use of hyper-realistic imagery seems to be the surface of The Plague’s allegorical and metaphysical narrative. Like most human observations, we notice the the obvious first, before we pull and prod at the exterior to reveal something more ambiguous and at the same time, something rather apparent. In the novel, Camus, “[juxtaposes] […] the symbolical and the realistic,” creating a polygonal register where the connotative qualities can be discovered when taking into consideration Camus’s style of narration and metaphorical language (Picon, 147). Camus’s novel consists of three tiers of meaning firstly as a literal chronicle of an epidemic, secondly as an allegory for the Nazi Occupation of France and thirdly, a metaphysical depiction