Written by a French-Algerian philosopher whose “insistence on placing individual moral responsibility at the heart of all public choices cuts sharply across the comfortable habits of our own age” - NY Review of Books
“The Nobel prize-winning Albert Camus, who died in 1960, could not have known how grimly current his existentialist novel of epidemic and death would remain.
Set in Algeria, in northern Africa, The Plague is a powerful study of human life and its meaning in the face of a deadly virus that sweeps dispassionately through the city, taking a vast percentage of the population with it.
A haunting tale of human resilience in the face of unrelieved horror, Camus' novel about a bubonic plague is a classic of twentieth-century literature.”