The Nobel prize-winning Albert Camus, who died in 1960, could not have known how grimly current his existentialist novel of epidemic and death would remain. Set in Algeria, in northern Africa, The Plague is a powerful study of human life and its meaning in the face of a deadly virus that sweeps dispassionately through the city, taking a vast percentage of the population with it.
The Nobel prize-winning Albert Camus, who died in 1960, could not have known how grimly current his existentialist novel of epidemic and death would remain. Set in Algeria, in northern Africa, The Plague is a powerful study of human life and its meaning in the face of a deadly virus that sweeps dispassionately through the city, taking a vast percentage of the population with it.
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Albert Camus nació en Argelia en 1913, en una paupérrima familia de emigrantes. Escribió libros tan fundamentales en nuestra cultura como La peste o El extranjero, por los que recibió en 1957 el Premio Nobel de Literatura. Falleció prematuramente en 1960, en un accidente de circulación, poco después de declarar a un periodista: «Mi obra aún no ha empezado». Tusquets Editores ha publicado sunovela El primer hombre y sus Escritos libertarios.