by Albert Camus · tapa dura · ISBN 9788432221675
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«La peste» is a novel by Albert Camus published by Editorial Seix Barral in hardback (234 pages, in Spanish).
The action takes place in Oran, a coastal city in North Africa, when an epidemic of bubonic plague isolates the population. Doctors and anonymous neighbours experience fear, betrayal and individualism, but also compassion, solidarity and collaboration to resist adversity and death.
Novel originally published in 1947. This 1983 edition includes the translation by Rosa Chacel and belongs to the collection Obras maestras de la literatura contemporánea (no. 7).
For readers of classic fiction and twentieth-century French literature, with an interest in the moral dilemmas of coexistence under a collective crisis.
Albert Camus was a French philosopher, writer, and political activist. He was the recipient of the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, the second-youngest recipient in history, and the first laureate in literature born in Africa. His works include The Stranger, The Plague, The Myth of Sisyphus, The Fall and The Rebel.
