The Plague Author: [France] Albert Camus Publisher: Shanghai Translation Publishing House

Albert Camus (1913-1960) is a famous French novelist, essayist and playwright, and a master of existentialist literature. In 1957, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature for his "passionate and calm exposition of the various questions that contemporary times have raised for the human conscience", and he is one of the youngest Nobel Prize winners in history.

In his novels, plays, essays and treatises, Camus profoundly revealed the loneliness of man in an alien world, the increasing alienation of the individual from himself, and the inevitability of sin and death. However, while revealing the absurdity of the world, he was not desperate or depressed. He advocated resistance in the absurdity and adherence to truth and justice in despair. He pointed out a path of liberal humanism other than Christianity and Marxism. His courage to face the bleakness of life and his fearless spirit of "knowing it is impossible but doing it anyway" made him the spokesperson of his generation and the spiritual mentor of the next generation not only in France, but also in Europe and eventually in the world after World War II.