“In January 1941, the twenty-eight year old French writer Albert Camus began work on a novel about a virus that spreads uncontrollably from animals to humans and ends up destroying half the population of a representative modern town.
It was called "La Peste/The Plague," eventually published in 1947 and frequently described as the greatest European novel of the postwar period…”
There is no more important book to understand our times than Albert Camus's The Plague, a novel about a virus that spreads uncontrollably from animals to humans and ends up destroying half the population of a representative modern town. Camus speaks to us now not because he was a magical seer, but because he correctly sized up human nature.
As he wrote: ‘Everyone has inside it himself this plague, because no one in the world, no one, can ever be immune.’
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“In January 1941, the twenty-eight year old French writer Albert Camus began work on a novel about a virus that spreads uncontrollably from animals to humans and ends up destroying half the population of a representative modern town. It was called La Peste/The Plague, eventually published in 1947 and frequently described as the greatest European novel of the postwar period…”
It was called "La Peste/The Plague," eventually published in 1947 and frequently described as the greatest European novel of the postwar period…”
There is no more important book to understand our times than Albert Camus's The Plague, a novel about a virus that spreads uncontrollably from animals to humans and ends up destroying half the population of a representative modern town. Camus speaks to us now not because he was a magical seer, but because he correctly sized up human nature.
As he wrote: ‘Everyone has inside it himself this plague, because no one in the world, no one, can ever be immune.’
