Narrative Ethics and Aesthetic Principles in Camus’s La Peste
French Forum, 39.1 (2014), 81-94
On the first reading of La Peste, the narrator is imagined as an anonymous figure who promises to reveal his identity “toujours à temps” (16). Throughout the narrative, however, the narrator betrays clues as to his identity and in the final chapter reveals that he is, as the reader may by then have come to suspect, Dr. Bernard Rieux. . . .
