The Plague (Twentieth Century Classics)

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Sinopsis

Condición del ejemplar: Acceptable. It begins with a single dead rat on a staircase. Within days, rats are dying by the thousands in the streets of Oran, an ordinary, prosperous town on the Algerian coast. Then the people begin to fall ill. When the authorities finally admit that the disease is bubonic plague, the gates of the city are closed and its inhabitants find themselves cut off from the rest of the world. As the epidemic spreads, Albert Camus follows a small group of characters as they respond to the crisis: Dr. Bernard Rieux, who works tirelessly to treat the sick; the journalist Rambert, desperate to escape and rejoin the woman he loves; the visitor Tarrou, who organizes volunteer sanitary teams; the humble clerk Grand, endlessly rewriting the first sentence of his novel; and Father Paneloux, whose sermons wrestle with the meaning of suffering. Through their stories, Camus explores how human beings face isolation, fear, death and the absurd, and finds dignity in solidarity, courage and the simple decision to keep fighting. First published in 1947 and often read as an allegory of the Nazi occupation of France, The Plague remains one of the twentieth century’s most powerful novels, and one that speaks to every generation that has lived through a crisis.