Authors: Albert Camus, Stuart Gilbert (Translator), Stuart Gilbert
ISBN-13: 9780679720218, ISBN-10: 0679720219
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Date Published: May 1991
Edition: Reissue
Albert Camus (7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was a French author, philosopher, and journalist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. He is often cited as a proponent of existentialism (the philosophy that he was associated with during his own lifetime), but Camus himself refused this particular label. Specifically, his views contributed to the rise of the more current philosophy known as absurdism. He wrote in his essay The Rebel that his whole life was devoted to opposing the philosophy of nihilism while still delving deeply into individual freedom.
Translated by Stuart Gilbert
The Plague is parable and sermon, and should be considered as such. The Plague stands or falls by its message. The message is not the highest form of creative art, but it may be of such importance for our time that to dismiss it in the name of artistic criticism would be to blaspheme against the human spirit.