The Plague

Informationen zum Autor Albert Camus (1913-60) grew up in a working-class neighbourhood in Algiers. He studied philosophy at the University of Algiers, and became a journalist. His most important works include The Outsider , The Myth of Sisyphus, The Plague and The Fall . After the occupation of France by the Germans in 1941, Camus became one of the intellectual leaders of the Resistance movement. He was killed in a road accident, and his last unfinished novel, The First Man , appeared posthumously. Klappentext Albert Camus was born in Algeria in 1913. He studied philosophy in Algiers and then worked in Paris as a journalist. He was one of the intellectual leaders of the Resistance movement and, after the War, established his international reputation as a writer. His books include The Plague , The Just and The Fall, and he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. Camus was killed in a road accident in 1960. Zusammenfassung 'On the morning of April 16, Dr Rieux emerged from his consulting-room and came across a dead rat in the middle of the landing.' It starts with the rats. Vomiting blood, they die in their hundreds, then in their thousands. When the rats are all gone, the citizens begin to fall sick. Like the rats, they too die in ever greater numbers.

Product details

• Authors: Albert Camus, Tony Judt
• Assisted by: Tony Judt (Introduction)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.07.2010
• EAN: 9780141049236
• ISBN: 978-0-14-104923-6
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 111 mm x 181 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Penguin Essentials; Essential Penguin
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Literary, Fiction in translation, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Existentialism, Narrative theme: Interior life, Algeria, Phenomenology and Existentialism