Under the terror caused by the unexpected outbreak of a terrible epidemic, such as the plague, in an unsuspecting town, the author manages to vividly describe the entire reaction, the anxiety, and the passive waiting or despair of those who are infected or will be infected. It is about human weakness in the face of the absurdity of a scourge that no one can fight and from which no one can defend themselves. On the other hand, another type of people, no longer those who suffer but those who fight, preserve human dignity.
Albert Camus (1913-1960), French novelist, playwright, and essayist, was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1957. He was born in Mondovi, Algeria, and died—killed—in Sens, France, along with his publisher Michel Gallimard, in a car accident. Founder of the "Theatre du Travail" (1935), for which he worked as a director, adapter, actor, and theorist, he owes almost equal fame to his novels "The Stranger" and "The Plague," as well as to his plays "Caligula," "The Just Assassins," and his philosophical essays "The Myth of Sisyphus," "The Rebel."
