The plague / Albert Camus ; translated from the French by Stuart Gilbert.
By: Camus, Albert.
Contributor(s): Gilbert, Stuart.
Material type: BookPublisher: London : Hamish Hamilton, 1987Description: 285 p. ; 21 cm.ISBN: 0241905265.Subject(s): French fiction | Plague -- FictionDDC classification: 843.91Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Store Item | 843.91 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00027279 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The story of the affect of the bubonic plague and the Algerians will to survive.
Translation of La peste.
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Author notes provided by Syndetics
Born in 1913 in Algeria, Albert Camus was a French novelist, dramatist, and essayist. He was deeply affected by the plight of the French during the Nazi occupation of World War II, who were subject to the military's arbitrary whims. He explored the existential human condition in such works as L'Etranger (The Outsider, 1942) and Le Mythe de Sisyphe (The Myth of Sisyphus, 1942), which propagated the philosophical notion of the "absurd" that was being given dramatic expression by other Theatre of the Absurd dramatists of the 1950s and 1960s.Camus also wrote a number of plays, including Caligula (1944). Much of his work was translated into English. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957.
Camus died in an automobile accident in 1960.
(Bowker Author Biography)