The Plague (1947), novel by Albert Camus; opera by Roberto Gerhard

[jserraglio]

This is my first time reading this, a pandemic novel. I also plan to listen to the opera by Roberto Gerhard released by Decca.

Albert Camus' novel The Plague leads surge of pestilence fiction

Author’s daughter explains 1947’s book’s renewed appeal during coronavirus lockdown https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.thegua ... s-lockdown

FULL TEXT of the novel, trans. Stuart Gilbert, at Internet Archive:

https://archive.org/stream/plague02camu ... u_djvu.txt

Full opera on YT:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_n3JUoL8COg