For a Handful of Books

Season 22 Episode 8: The Plague (by Albert Camus)

The most famous book game on Italian television this Saturday sees the Liceo Scientifico dell'Istituto "Vittorino-Bernini" in Genoa and the Liceo Artistico Musicale "Foiso Fois" in Cagliari compete on one of the most important and well-known novels of twentieth-century French literature: "The Plague" by Albert Camus. Published in 1947, just two years after the end of the Second World War, "The Plague" is a novel that must be read as an allegory of evil and the recent trauma of war, which still weigh on European consciences: like evil, the plague is never completely defeated, but remains latent waiting for the environment favorable to the manifestation of a new epidemic. At stake, as always, not money, but works of genius (i.e. many books) and the possibility of accessing the final between the two classes ranked best during the program.

Genre:

Talk

Seasons:

23

Episodes:

453

Actor:

Piero D'Orfles, Geppi Cucciari

Quality:

HD

Status:

Ended

First Air:

1998

IMDb:

9.0