The Plague
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Albert Camus's The Plague is a landmark of twentieth-century literature, a sweeping allegorical novel set in the Algerian port city of Oran, suddenly gripped by a devastating bubonic plague. The narrative chronicles the lives of ordinary citizens — doctors, priests, journalists, and civil servants — as they confront isolation, death, and the absurdity of human suffering with quiet heroism or resigned indifference. Through the measured, unflinching voice of Dr. Bernard Rieux, Camus presents a profound meditation on solidarity, mortality, and the human condition, drawing on his philosophy of the absurd to argue that meaning is forged not despite suffering, but through our collective response to it. First published in French as La Peste in 1947, the novel won Camus the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958 and remains an enduring and urgent work, as resonant in times of pandemic and political oppression as ever. Rich in moral complexity and restrained yet deeply moving in tone, it stands as one of the greatest existentialist novels ever written.
Author: Albert Camus
Format: Paperback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Albert Camus's The Plague is a landmark of twentieth-century literature, a sweeping allegorical novel set in the Algerian port city of Oran, suddenly gripped by a devastating bubonic plague. The narrative chronicles the lives of ordinary citizens — doctors, priests, journalists, and civil servants — as they confront isolation, death, and the absurdity of human suffering with quiet heroism or resigned indifference. Through the measured, unflinching voice of Dr. Bernard Rieux, Camus presents a profound meditation on solidarity, mortality, and the human condition, drawing on his philosophy of the absurd to argue that meaning is forged not despite suffering, but through our collective response to it. First published in French as La Peste in 1947, the novel won Camus the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958 and remains an enduring and urgent work, as resonant in times of pandemic and political oppression as ever. Rich in moral complexity and restrained yet deeply moving in tone, it stands as one of the greatest existentialist novels ever written.