On April 16, 194 ... the first carcass of a rat killed by the plague appeared in Oran. Dr. Bernard Rieux met her on the landing of the stairs of his house. In the afternoon, he saw another "big one" emerge with the wet fur that walked awkwardly. The animal stopped, seemed to seek balance, started to run towards the doctor, stopped again, turned on himself, throwing a small he screamed and fell at last, spilling blood from his half-open muzzle. "

Albert Camus's book The Plague portrays, like very few others, the devastation of a city in the face of the plague that led to despair for Oran and, by extension, anyone suffering from the contagious disease.

The novel of the Nobel Prize can finally be read today in ebook format in Spanish and around the world after an agreement reached between Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, Éditions Gallimard and the Wylie agency. Until now, this work by Albert Camus could not be accessed in digital format. In addition, as of April 30, the novel will also be available to readers in audiobook format.

The editorial agreement includes rights in Spanish for everyone, both digital and in physical books, and includes all of their novels, essays and various unpublished texts, which will see the light from January 2021 on different labels (Debate, Literatura Random House and Debolsillo, in his Contemporary collection).

The book, whose translation is carried out by the writer Rosa Chacel, is an allegory of the Nazi occupation in France and Europe. But not only: it is also a metaphor for the dangers that lie in wait for society. "The bacillus of the plague never dies or disappears, which can remain for decades asleep on furniture, in clothes, waiting patiently in bedrooms, in cellars, in suitcases, handkerchiefs and papers, and which can arrive a day when the plague, to the disgrace and teaching of men, wakes up their rats and sends them to die in a happy city ".

The tragic parallelism of one of the fundamental, and already classic, works with current reality is astonishing. Hence, it has become one of the best selling books in Italy and France in recent weeks.

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