“We’ve reprinted twice so far this year.” “This is mostly through independent bookstores as Amazon is out of stock at the moment,” Blake said. By last week, three weeks into the month, 2,156 copies had been sold in March, including 1,504 in one week alone. In February last year, 226 copies of The Plague were sold in the UK. “We’ve gone from shipping quantities in the low hundreds every month to the mid-thousands,” said Isabel Blake, the senior publicity manager.
The British publisher of The Plague, Penguin Classics, says it is struggling to keep up with orders. Everyone thinks they are right and forgets what life is about, that there are doubts.” “In 1946, when Papa wrote the book, wealth was measured by different standards to today, when people are simply chasing after gold and human beings are regarded as free market goods to be bought and sold. “Perhaps with the lockdown we will have some time to reflect about what is real, what is important, and become more human,” she said. In his book The Death of Camus, the Italian author and academic Giovanni Catelli suggests the author may have been killed by the KGB after expressing his opposition to the Soviet regime.Ĭatherine and her twin brother, Jean, whom their father fondly nicknamed “Plague” and “Cholera”, were not directly told of his death and were kept away from the funeral.įor 40 years, Catherine Camus has managed her father’s literary legacy, controlling publication rights, publishing his letters and keeping the flame of her adored “Papa” alight while remaining in the shadows herself because, she said, “I prefer it there”. The cause of the accident, on a long stretch of straight, wide road, remains a mystery and there have been numerous theories.
The car, a powerful Facel-Vega, veered off the road and hit two trees. Albert Camus, who was born in Algeria, where La Peste is set, and died in 1960, aged 46, while being driven to his Provençal home by his publisher, Michel Gallimard.
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