CAMUS, Albert.

The Plague.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf , 1948.

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"How to conjure up a picture, for instance, of a town without pigeons, without any trees or gardens, where you never hear the beat of wings or the rustle of leaves": First American edition of Albert Camus' The Plague

First American edition, second printing of Camus’ work, which tells the story of a plague sweeping the French Algerian city of Oran. Octavo, original cloth. Translated from the French by Stuart Gilbert. Very good in a good dust jacket. Jacket design by Jean Carlu.

"Camus is not only a giant among French moralists—an important and characteristic strain in French literature—but he stands as one of the most profound thinkers of the 20th century as well" (Pribic, Nobel Laureates in Literature, 75). "The Plague is parable and sermon, and should be considered as such. To criticize it by standards which apply to most fiction would be to risk condemning it for moralizing, which is exactly where it is strongest… There are certain things which need to be said now, without care for the future, and these are said in The Plague" (Stephen Spender in Books of the Century, 159).