Although he survived the war, he died in an automobile accident only fifteen years later, in 1960, at the age of forty-six. Camus, who after leaving university wrote for left-wing periodicals before the advent of World War II, went from being a somewhat indifferent pacifist to fighting in the French Resistance during the German occupation of France. If people know the work of Albert Camus, it is generally through his 1942 novel L’Étranger (translated either as The Stranger or The Outsider), a book read by many alienated youths in their teens and early twenties (full disclosure: I read it at seventeen, and again at twenty-four). How would I simply describe The Plague to someone who hasn’t read it? I would go for a popular analogy, in this case: imagine the early seasons of The Walking Dead, only without the zombies, in a single city in North Africa. The Plague, by Albert Camus (Vintage Books, 1988)
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