The plague/albert camus

The Plague is Albert Camuss world-renowned fable of fear and courage The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death.

Fear, isolation and claustrophobia follow as they are forced into quarantine.

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.

An immediate triumph when it was published in 1947, The Plague is in part an allegory of Frances suffering under the Nazi occupation, and a story of bravery and determination against the precariousness of human existence.

A matchless fable of fear, courage and cowardice Independent MagnificentThe Times 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.