4.1
De pest
by Albert Camus
Het uitbreken van een epidemie in een Noordafrikaanse stad met als gevolg het totale isolement stelt de bewoners voor konsekwenties ten aanzien van hun houding tegenover deze kwaal, symbool van alle kwaad, waar ieder op zijn beurt meegeconfronteerd wordt
FictionPlagueEpidemicsPeste bubónicaFICTION / ClassicsFICTION / Psychological
RELEASED1984
PUBLISHERBezige Bij
LENGTH223
LANGUAGENL
Albert Camus was a French Algerian author, philosopher, and journalist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. He was a key philosopher of the 20th-century and his most famous work is the novel *L'Étranger* (*The Stranger*). In 1949, Camus founded the Group for International Liaisons within the Revolutionary Union Movement, which was a group opposed to some tendencies of the surrealistic movement of André Breton. Camus was the second-youngest recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature - after Rudyard Kipling - when he became the first African-born writer to receive the award. He is the shortest-lived of any literature laureate to date, having died in an automobile accident just over two years after receiving the award. He is often cited as a proponent of existentialism, the philosophy that he was associated with during his own lifetime, but Camus himself rejected this particular label. In an interview in 1945, Camus rejected any ideological associations: "No, I am not an existentialist. Sartre and I are always surprised to see our names linked…"
4.1
De pest
by Albert Camus
Het uitbreken van een epidemie in een Noordafrikaanse stad met als gevolg het totale isolement stelt de bewoners voor konsekwenties ten aanzien van hun houding tegenover deze kwaal, symbool van alle kwaad, waar ieder op zijn beurt meegeconfronteerd wordt
FictionPlagueEpidemicsPeste bubónicaFICTION / ClassicsFICTION / PsychologicalFICTION / LiteraryNovela
RELEASED1984
PUBLISHERBezige Bij
LENGTH223
LANGUAGENL
Albert Camus was a French Algerian author, philosopher, and journalist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. He was a key philosopher of the 20th-century and his most famous work is the novel *L'Étranger* (*The Stranger*). In 1949, Camus founded the Group for International Liaisons within the Revolutionary Union Movement, which was a group opposed to some tendencies of the surrealistic movement of André Breton. Camus was the second-youngest recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature - after Rudyard Kipling - when he became the first African-born writer to receive the award. He is the shortest-lived of any literature laureate to date, having died in an automobile accident just over two years after receiving the award. He is often cited as a proponent of existentialism, the philosophy that he was associated with during his own lifetime, but Camus himself rejected this particular label. In an interview in 1945, Camus rejected any ideological associations: "No, I am not an existentialist. Sartre and I are always surprised to see our names linked…"
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