《鼠疫》是法国存在主义文学大师加缪(1913～1960)在半个世纪以前创作的一部小说。描写的是北非一个叫奥兰的城市突然爆发了鼠疫,灾难来临之后,很多人失去了自主,他们把希望寄托在上帝身上,希望能够有上帝出来拯救他们。而里厄医生则站出来告诉大家.根本没有什么救世主,人最后只能自我拯救,只有具有自我意识和敢于担当的人才能拯救自己、拯救城市,他们站了出来,通过自己的反抗使城市摆脱了灾难。1957年,加缪因《鼠疫》获得当年诺贝尔文学奖。过去,我们曾经把《鼠疫》当作一种虚构和象征来阅读。经历过这次的非典风波,我们突然发现它其实是一部人类面临重大灾难时的写实 The Plague was a novel created half a century ago by Camus (1913 ~ 1960), the master of French existentialism. Describing a sudden outbreak of plague in a city called Oran in North Africa, many people have lost their autonomy and placed their hopes on God in the hope that God will come out to save them. Dr. Rieu stood up and told everyone that there was no savior at all, and that in the end only those who were self-conscious and courageous could save themselves and save the city. They stood out and escaped the city through their own resistance Disaster. In 1957, Camus won the Nobel Prize in Literature for his “plague.” In the past, we used to read the plague as a fiction and symbol. After experiencing the SARS crisis, we suddenly found out that it is actually a human reality in the face of a major disaster