French Nobel laureate Alber Kami explores the very limits of human existence and absurds in the exciting novel "The Plague". What happens to terms such as freedom, brotherhood, mercy, God and the good in the conditions of elevated or radically transformed intensity of life. Through the destinies of the protagonists, first of all Doctor Rieux, the writer tries to present a broader picture of the crucial issues of the time of the twilight of humanistic values. The novel is engaging and highly topical, especially today when social paranoia has reached extreme values due to the increasing threats to humanity in the form of the spread of deadly viruses, the explosion of terrorism, nuclear or natural disaster.
