‘This empty town, white with dust, saturated with sea smells, loud with the howl of the wind’
The townspeople of Oran are in the grisp of a deadly plague, which spread from rats and now condemns its human victims to a swift and horrifying death. Forced into quarantine in the sweltering heat, each person responds in their own way to the lethal disease: some resign themselves to fate, some seek blame and revenge, and a few, like the unheroic Dr. Rieux, join forces to defy the terror. Written just after the Nazi occupation of France, The Plague is a taut, visceral depiction of resistance against a seemingly uncontrollable evil.
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
