La Peste

by Albert Camus

1948FictionPlaguePlague in literatureEpidemicsPeste bubónica

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First lines

The unusual events described in this chronicle occurred in 194-at Oran.

About this book

The Plague (French: La Peste) is a novel by Albert Camus, published in 1947, that tells the story of a plague sweeping the French Algerian city of Oran. It asks a number of questions relating to the nature of destiny and the human condition. The characters in the book, ranging from doctors to vacationers to fugitives, all help to show the effects the plague has on a populace.

Themes & subjects

FictionPlaguePlague in literatureEpidemicsPeste bubónicaFICTION / Classics

First published 1948

Setting

Oran (Algeria)AlgeriaFrance1940s

About the author

Albert Camus

7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960

Albert Camus was a French Algerian author, philosopher, and journalist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. He was a key philosopher of the 20th-century and his most famous work is the novel *L'Étranger* (*The Stranger*). In 1949, Camus founded the Group for International Liaisons within the Revolutionary Union Movement, which was a group opposed to some tendencies of the surrealistic movement of André Breton. Camus was the second-youngest recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature - after Rudyard Kipling - when he became the first African-born writer to receive the award. He is the shortest-lived of any literature laureate to date, having died in an automobile acciden…