by Albert Camus · Edicions 62 · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788429725438
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«La Pesta» is the novel by Albert Camus, published by Edicions 62 in paperback (256 pages, in Catalan).
The novel is set in Oran, Algeria, during an epidemic of bubonic plague that forces its inhabitants to live with isolation and death. Through the characters who fight against the disease, Camus explores solidarity, responsibility and the human condition, in an allegory of the Nazi occupation and a reflection on evil.
The novel originally appeared in French as 'La peste' in 1947; this Catalan edition is from 1986.
For readers looking for 20th-century classics with a philosophical background. Albert Camus won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957.
Albert Camus was a French philosopher, writer, and political activist. He was the recipient of the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, the second-youngest recipient in history, and the first laureate in literature born in Africa. His works include The Stranger, The Plague, The Myth of Sisyphus, The Fall and The Rebel.
