The Plague

Camus, Albert/ Gilbert, Stuart (Translator)

ISBN 10: 0679720219 / ISBN 13: 9780679720218

Verlag: Vintage Books, 1991

reissue edition. 308 pages. 7.75x5.25x0.50 inches. In Stock. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 0679720219

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“Its relevance lashes you across the face.” —Stephen Metcalf, The Los Angeles Times • “A redemptive book, one that wills the reader to believe, even in a time of despair.” —Roger Lowenstein, The Washington Post 

A haunting tale of human resilience and hope in the face of unrelieved horror, Albert Camus' iconic novel about an epidemic ravaging the people of a North African coastal town is a classic of twentieth-century literature. 

The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death. Fear, isolation and claustrophobia follow as they are forced into quarantine. Each person responds in their own way to the lethal disease: some resign themselves to fate, some seek blame, and a few, like Dr. Rieux, resist the terror.

An immediate triumph when it was published in 1947, The Plague is in part an allegory of France's suffering under the Nazi occupation, and a timeless story of bravery and determination against the precariousness of human existence.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Born in Algeria in 1913, Albert Camus published The Stranger—now one of the most widely read novels of this century—in 1942. Celebrated in intellectual circles, Camus was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. On January 4, 1960, he was killed in a car accident.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Plague
Verlag: Vintage Books
Erscheinungsdatum: 1991
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: Brand New