![]() ![]() ![]() They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have transformed the way we see ourselves-and each other. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. ![]() His epigrammatic and, above all, discomforting monologue gradually saps, then undermines, the reader's own complacency. Jean-Baptiste Clamence, a successful Parisian barrister, has come to recognize the deep-seated hypocrisy of his existence. It gradually becomes an omnipresent reality, obliterating all traces of the past and driving its victims to almost unearthly extremes of suffering, madness, and compassion. In Oran, a coastal town in North Africa, the plague begins as a series of portents, unheeded by the people. Through the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach, Camus explored what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd." First published in English in 1946 now in a new translation by Matthew Ward.Ī gripping tale of human unrelieved horror, of survival and resilience, and of the ways in which humankind confronts death, The Plague is at once a masterfully crafted novel, eloquently understated and epic in scope, and a parable of ageless moral resonance, profoundly relevant to our times. ![]()
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