known as La Peste in French, written in 1947 by French-Algerian philosopher Albert Camus. Japanese booksellers struggled to keep The Plague on shelves as demand grew in the early days of the pandemic.

Albert Camus, The Stranger The philosophy of Absurdism ... he is celebrated for influential works such as L’Étranger (The Stranger, 1942), La Peste (The Plague, 1947) and La Chute (The Fall ...