Die Pest

The city of Oran is plagued by mysterious events. Rats emerge from the sewers and die in the streets. Shortly thereafter, the first people succumb to a treacherous fever, and soon it becomes undeniable: the plague is raging in the city. Oran is sealed off hermetically. Escape is impossible. "They continued with their business, prepared for trips, formed opinions. How could they waste a thought on the plague, which makes every future impossible, cancels trips, and silences the exchange of opinions?" It is passages like these that give Camus' classic renewed power and make it indispensable even in today's time.