The Plague

By: Albert Camus

Narrated by: James Jenner

In the small coastal city of Oran, Algeria, rats begin rising up from the filth, only to die as bloody heaps in the streets. Shortly after, an outbreak of the bubonic plague erupts and envelops the human population. Albert Camus' The Plague is a brilliant and haunting rendering of human perseverance and futility in the face of a relentless terror born of nature.

The Plague Chronicles

A character driven chronicle of the plague, with a boring shake of the hand at God.

Psychosis of Fear: Panic, Apathy, Insanity

A powerful novel on a plague's petrifying effects on society's psychosis: the pullulating fear and panic, apathy for life, and loss of fundamental sanity.

wish I had read during COVID!!

pace of author was perfect. my first exposure to A. Camut and looking forward to Myth of S. this was beautiful, heart breaking, and astonishingly similar to my memories of COVID. human nature is predictable. mostly good, but occasionally silly and terrible.

Not Camus' best

Meh I thought it was not all that and a bag of chips word word

Layered Comsiderations

Camus challenges the reader to confront their own role in spreading the “Plague”. A beautiful, yet horrifying book on human resilience and the responsibility each one of us have during tragic times.