Maps
Where does The Plague take place? See how it relates to the places Camus called home.
![Algeria map, circa 1945, United States War Department](/media/christ-at-the-core/service-gmd-gmd5-g5701-g5701s-ct003445-resize2-1280x853.jpg)
Photos
Visualize the places in The Plague and important settings in Camus' life.
- A collection of postcards that depict the neighborhood where Camus grew up in Algiers (Le Quartier de Belcourt)
- A photograph of the port of Oran, taken in 1943
Back to Reading Guide"For its ordinariness is what strikes one first about the town of Oran, which is merely a large French port on the Algerian coast, headquarters of the Prefect of a French Department. The town itself, let us admit, is ugly."[1]