6/28/2023 0 Comments The plague laura marris![]() We contemplate the skies of a plague spring, examining the body politic and the politics of immunity. Through these pages, we document how our sense of The Plague evolved under the force of a new reality, alongside the pressures of illness, recovery, concern, and care. Kaplan’s chapters explore the book’s tangled and vivid history, while mine are drawn to the ecology of landscape and language, particularly in translation. These thirteen linked chapters hold the past and present of The Plague in conversation, discovering how the novel has reached people at the current moment. I am also the co-author, with Alice Kaplan, of States of Plague: Reading Albert Camus in a Pandemic (University of Chicago Press, 2022, French edition from Gallimard, translated by Patrick Hersant). From snowy owls at the Buffalo airport, to a fake city for self-driving cars, to redoing my father’s bird count route, these essays examine how much everyday absence goes unnoticed in landscape and the ways people try to account for it. ![]() This collection of linked essays focuses on nine landscapes where personal and ecological loneliness overlap and inform each other. My current book in progress is The Age of Loneliness (forthcoming from Graywolf Press, 2024) ![]()
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