Camus

Essential reading for old fans and new admirers of Albert Camus' classic quarantine novel THE PLAGUE – a new bestseller amidst the coronavirus pandemic.

'

Brilliant.'

The Times

'

Joyous … A unique critical talent.'

TLS Albert Camus is one of the most famous French writers of the twentieth century, a Nobel Laureate celebrated for his classic existentialist novel

The Outsider and urgently relevant allegory of a pandemic,

The Plague. But what about his controversial attitudes to

race, especially his portrayal of

Arabs versus Europeans, and

French colonialism in Algeria?

As provocative and brilliantly argued as it was in 1970,

Conor Cruise O'Brien's

Camus is a groundbreaking

postcolonial critique which revolutionised how Camus was viewed by a new generation.