The man and the times met: Camus joined the resistance movement during the occupation and after the liberation was a columnist for the newspaper Combat. Of semi-proletarian parents, early attached to intellectual circles of strongly revolutionary tendencies, with a deep interest in philosophy (only chance prevented him from pursuing a university career in that field), he came to France at the age of twenty-five. His origin in Algeria and his experiences there in the thirties were dominating influences in his thought and work. Share via Email: Albert Camus – Biographical Share this content via EmailĪ lbert Camus (1913-1960) was a representative of non-metropolitan French literature.Share on LinkedIn: Albert Camus – Biographical Share this content on LinkedIn.Tweet: Albert Camus – Biographical Share this content on Twitter.Share on Facebook: Albert Camus – Biographical Share this content on Facebook.This updated edition promises to add relevance and urgency to a classic novel of twentieth-century literature.
Restoring the restrained lyricism of the original French text, and liberating it from the archaisms and assumptions of the previous English translation, Marris grants English readers the closest access we have ever had to the meaning and searing beauty of The Plague.
In this fresh yet careful translation, award-winning translator Laura Marris breathes new life into Albert Camus’s ever-resonant tale.
Rieux, resist the terror.Īn immediate triumph when it was published in 1947, The Plague is in part an allegory of France’s suffering under the Nazi occupation, as well as a timeless story of bravery and determination against the precariousness of human existence. Each person responds in their own way to the lethal disease: some resign themselves to fate, some seek blame, and a few, like Dr. Fear, isolation, and claustrophobia follow as they are forced into quarantine. The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death.
The first new translation of The Plague to be published in the United States in more than seventy years, bringing the Nobel Prize winner’s iconic novel (“A redemptive book, one that wills the reader to believe, even in a time of despair.” -The Washington Post) to a new generation of readers.
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