Con estas frases Albert Camus, tras un largo relato alegórico que describe la difícil lucha de los habitantes de Orán contra la peste, nos recuerda al cabo de la Segunda Guerra mundial que la contienda contra el nazismo, “la peste negra”, como se le llamaba entonces, no puede tener una victoria definitiva.
It is with these phrases that Albert Camus, at the close of the long allegorical novel describing the difficult fight of the citizens of the town of Oran against the plague, reminds us, at the close of the Second World War, that the fight against Nazism, “the brown plague” as it was termed at the time, could not enjoy a definitive victory.
