The Plague
(Albert Camus)
The Plague is Camu's major work and the one that contributed probably most towards him being awarded the Nobel prize in 1957. The Plague is the realistic chronicle of an imaginary epidemic and the terror that it causes to an unsuspected city. The writer describes very intensly the reactions, the agony, and the passive waiting or despair of all those who have been or will be contaminated. It is all about the human weakness in front of the absurdity of a plague that nobody can fight nor can defend himself. On the other hand, another kind of men, not any more the ones who suffer, but the ones who fight, are those who manage to save the human dignity. The Plague through the power of a very vivid description that make it a living testimony of the worst miseries of our age will move the reader to his very core. It is a symbolic recollection of the evil and the fight against it, the addictions and the fragile powers of man. It is a book that should be in everyone's library and should be read over and over as every reading will reveal something more of the human condition.
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