by Albert Camus · EDHASA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788435015066
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«La peste» is the novel by Albert Camus, published by Edhasa in paperback (284 pages, in Spanish).
In Oran, an Algerian city struck by an epidemic of bubonic plague, doctors and residents live with isolation and death. Albert Camus contrasts fear, betrayals and individualism with solidarity, compassion and resistance, turning the epidemic into a reflection on the human condition.
Originally published in 1947, the novel won the Prix des Critiques; this Spanish edition includes the translation by Rosa Chacel and belongs to the Pocket Edhasa collection (no. 6).
For readers of French classics and novels of ideas, with an interest in moral and social reflection on human resistance.
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.
