Albert Camus

“A Hard Love”: Deciding for or Against God in Camus’ The Plague

Each Sunday, the San Francisco Chronicle lists the ten most popular fiction and non-fiction reads among Bay Area residents. Most books have been published in the last two years. A few weeks ago, however, a modern classic cracked the tenth spot: The Plague (1947) by Albert Camus (1913–1960).   COVID19 is an ostensible explanation for The Plague’s bump in readership. With no premonition…