'Its relevance lashes you across the face. Alain de Botton, The New York Times ('Camus on the Coronavirus') He speaks to us in our own times not because he was a magical seer who could intimate what the best epidemiologists could not, but because he correctly sized up human nature.' ' believed that the actual historical incidents we call plagues are merely concentrations of a universal precondition, dramatic instances of a perpetual rule: that all human beings are vulnerable to being randomly exterminated at any time, by a virus, an accident or the actions of our fellow man. Mugambi Jouet, Boston Review ('Reading Camus in Time of Plague and Polarization') is a testament to hope, resistance, and humanity.' Jacqueline Rose, London Review of Books ('Pointing the Finger: Jacqueline Rose on The Plague') Under what conditions can the truth of social deprivation be seen?' 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 Washington Post) to a new generation of readers. 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.

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