PLAGUE, THE - Penguin Modern Classics

During the 1940s plague descends on the Algerian town of Oran. Like the German occupation of France in the second World War, this plague too brings its terror, while also inspiring a courageous reistance. But The Plague is more than a parable. It is also a tale of natural calamity: a slaughter as absurd as the habits it supersedes. And it is this uniformity of the absurd, the same thing over and over and over again, that lies at the heart of Camus's conception of things.