For more information please visit the a year of books page. Reading albert camus the plague in the time of coronavirus. Jan 05, 2015 books blog albert camus albert camus the plague. Albert camus, the plague 1947 the coronavirus pandemic has rather put me in mind of albert camuss classic allegorical book about the pestilence that struck the ugly and smug little port town of his native oran in the 1940s. Publishers report sales boom in novels about fictional epidemics. The novel presents a snapshot of life in oran as seen through the authors distinctive absurdist point of view. The characters in the book, ranging from doctors to vacationers to fugitives, all help to show the. The main characters of this fiction, classics story are raoul, dr bernard rieux. All delivery costs are charged in advance at time of purchase. This site is like a library, you could find million book here by using search box in the header. Camus won with this work the nobel prize for literature in 1957.
Albert camus novel the plague leads surge of pestilence fiction. Why you should read the plague, the albert camus novel the. It asks a number of questions relating to the nature of destiny and the human condition. The book was published in multiple languages including english, consists of 308 pages and is available in paperback format. The plague by albert camus meet your next favorite book. Maybe this is due to his existentialism, which has no clear concept neither. Sicuramente uno dei libri schizzati in cima alle vendite in questo periodo, insieme a cecita di saramago.
Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. The plague, as its titled in english, follows the inhabitants of oran, an algerian town that is sealed off by quarantine as it is ravaged by bubonic plague, writes the guardian s alison flood. Perhaps no writer has made better use of this material than albert camus. Mar 24, 2020 ten books that offer lessons from past pandemics. The unusual events described in this chronicle occurred in 194 at oran. The stranger letranger, often translated as the outsider. It is as reasonable to represent one kind of imprisonment by another, as it is to represent anything that really exists by that which exists not. The book i received is not camus novel, but a commentary on it by levivalensi. Albert camus novel the plague leads surge of pestilence. Hij wordt bijgestaan door mensen van zeer uiteenlopende aard. A gripping tale of human unrelieved horror, of survival and resilienc.
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