![]() ![]() ![]() Just as readers of The Plague must ponder the objectives and interpretation of The Narrator who is “closely involved in all that he proposed to narrate,” qualitative researchers must contemplate their own assumptions, aims, and subjectivity, which is both foundational and often overlooked in qualitative inquiry. ![]() Camus’s text forces the reader to reflect on what it means to qualitatively study an issue or an event when the researcher is also affected by it. The existential novella documents the experience of the citizens of Oran, Algeria during a fictional epidemic, and The Narrator’s documentation is explicitly based on qualitative “data” from participant observation, key informant accounts, and document analysis. As a social worker and qualitative researcher, I read Albert Camus’s The Plague as I lay recovering from COVID-19. ![]()
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