The characters in the book, ranging from doctors to vacationers to fugitives, all help to show the. It asks a number of questions relating to the nature of destiny and the human condition.
"Its relevance lashes you across the face."-The Los Angeles Times "A redemptive book, one that wills the reader to believe, even in a time of despair. The Plague (French: La Peste) is a novel by Albert Camus, published in 1947, that tells the story of a plague sweeping the French Algerian city of Oran. Each person responds in their own way to the lethal disease: some resign themselves to fate, some seek blame, and a few, like Dr Rieux, resist the terror. Fear, isolation and claustrophobia follow as they are forced into quarantine. Camus is a master of the Defoe-like narrative. The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death.
The novel presents a snapshot of life in Oran as seen through the author's distinctive absurdist point of view. The Plague is a novel by Albert Camus, published in 1947, that tells the story from the point of view of an unknown narrator of a plague sweeping the French Algerian city of Oran.
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