author: Albert Camus, Tony Judt (Editor), Robin Buss (Translator)
shelved under: Fiction
date: 2001, c1947
publisher: Penguin Classics
content type: book
description:
The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death.
Fear, isolation and claustrophobia follow as they are forced into quarantine, each responding in their own way to the lethal bacillus: some resign themselves to fate, some seek to blame and a few, like Dr. Rieux, resist the terror.
A series of letters from Burroughs to Ginsberg, describing Burroughs' 1953 journey through Columbia, Ecuador, and Peru in search of the hallucinogenic vine yage.
