Written when execution by guillotine was still legal in France, Albert Camus' devastating attack on the 'obscene exhibition' of capital punishment remains one of the most powerful, persuasive arguments ever made against the death penalty.

Në këtë roman autori na jep paralelizmin mes rënies së vajzës në Senë dhe rënies së shpirtit të njeriut, humbja e pafajsisë dhe mirësisë absolute është shumë tronditëse. Pas kësaj, rrëfyesi zhvendoset nga Parisi i dritave në Amsterdamin e rratheve koncetrike që ai vetë i përngjason me rrathët e ferrit, dhe padyshim vetë ndodhet në rrethin e fundit.

Romani "Renia" dhe Fjalimi i mbajtur me rastin e dorezimit te Cmimit "Nobel" 1957 Mbi librin Në këtë roman autori na jep paralelizmin mes rënies së vajzës në Senë dhe rënies së shpirtit të njeriut, humbja e pafajsisë dhe mirësisë absolute është shumë tronditëse.

Kam pranuar të vras për të përmbysur despotizmin. Por pas asaj që ti thua, unë shoh paralajmërimin e një despotizmi i cili, nëse vendoset ndonjëherë, do të më bëjë mua një vrasës, ndërsa unë përpiqem të jem një mbrojtës i së drejtës.

A daring critique of communism and how it had gone wrong behind the Iron Curtain, Camus’ essay examines the revolutions in France and Russia, and argues that since they were both guilty of producing tyranny and corruption, hope for the future lies only in revolt without revolution.

 If human existence holds no significance, what can keep us from suicide? As Camus argues, if there is no God to give meaning to our lives, humans must take on that purpose themselves. This is our 'absurd' task, like Sisyphus forever rolling his rock up a hill, as the inevitability of death constantly overshadows us.

 When his mother dies, he refuses to show his emotions simply to satisfy the expectations of others. And when he commits a random act of violence on a sun-drenched beach near Algiers, his lack of remorse compounds his guilt in the eyes of society and the law. Yet he is as much a victim as a criminal.

The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death. Fear, isolation and claustrophobia follow as they are forced into quarantine. Each person responds in their own way to the lethal disease: some resign themselves to fate, some seek blame, and a few, like Dr Rieux, resist the terror.

An immediate triumph when it was published in 1947, The Plague is in part an allegory of France's suffering under the Nazi occupation, and a story of bravery and determination against the precariousness of human existence.

 It questions two events held sacred by the left wing - the French Revolution of 1789 and the Russian Revolution of 1917 - that had resulted, he believed, in terrorism as a political instrument. In this towering intellectual document, Camus argues that hope for the future lies in revolt, which unlike revolution is a spontaneous response to injustice and a...