

He is remembered for The Stranger, The First Man and A Happy Death.Ĭamus won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957 for his contributions to the literary field. The plague spares no one and it devastates the once peaceful town.Īlbert Camus was a French-Algerian novelist, journalist and philosopher. Bibliographic information Publisher, Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Incorporated, 1991 ISBN, 0808519840, 9780808519843 Length, 308 pages. Some people seek a melancholic meaning to their existence, while others try to find a modicum of happiness. Others choose to make profit, smuggling alcohol and other items the populace starves for. Some choose to embrace the situation in their own way, helping the infected. The pestilence it leaves behind forces the citizens to seek ways of coping with it. It drives them to madness, erasing the pillars they have built in the past and tests their compassion and humanity at an insane scale. The people ignore the signs, and the plague consumes them. The Plague is a dystopian novel by Albert Camus.Ī coastal town is infected by a plague, one that begins almost silently.
