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Allusions/references to other works

In the first part of The Plague, Rieux overhears a conversation concerning an Algerian man being shot to death on a beach. This is in all probability a reference to the plot of Camus's earlier novel The Stranger.

Early in the The Plague, Cottard refers to Kafka's The Trial.