The Plague by Albert Camus
Published 1947 · 296 pages · 97,193 words · about 7 hours at an average pace · Literary Fiction
How hard is The Plague to read?
The Plague scores 53 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it quite demanding. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 55 out of 100
- Sentence structure: 52 out of 100
- Abstraction: 68 out of 100
- Information density: 60 out of 100
How The Plague is regarded
The Plague holds a literary regard score of 88 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.
Prizes
- Nobel Prize in Literature 1957, awarded to Albert Camus
Where the story of The Plague takes place
- Oran, Algeria, the 1940s (1940 to 1943), the main setting