阿尔贝·加缪（Albert Camus, 1913—1960）法国诺贝尔文学奖得主，生于法属阿尔及利亚蒙多维城。

1942年，加缪凭借小说《局外人》一举成名。1947年，发表小说《鼠疫》，该作品得到一致好评，进一步确立了加缪在当代西方文学中的重要地位。1957年，44岁的加缪因为“他的重要文学创作以明彻的认真态度阐明了我们这个时代人类良知的问题”获得诺贝尔文学奖，成为法国蕞年轻的获奖者。

加缪的作品始终从人的现实生存困境出发，揭示了世界的荒诞性。

加缪在他的小说、戏剧、随笔和论著中深刻地揭示出人在异已世界中的孤独、个人与自身的日益异化，以及罪恶和死亡的不可避免。但他在揭示出世界荒诞的同时却并不绝望和颓丧；他主张要在荒诞中奋起反抗，在绝望中坚持真理和正义；他为世人指出自由人道主义道路，使他在第二次世界大战之后不但在法国，而且在欧洲并蕞终在全世界成为他那一代人的代言人和下一代人的精神导师。

代表作：小说《局外人》《鼠疫》，剧本《卡里古拉》，哲学随笔《西西弗斯神话》《反抗者》。

　　《薄荷阅读 鼠疫：英文》：
　　But the situation worsened in the following days. There were more and more dead vermin in the streets, and the collectors had bigger truckloads every morning. On the fourth day the rats began to come out and die in batches. From basements, cellars, and sewers they emerged in long wavering files into the light of day, swayed helplessly, then did a sort of pirouette and fell dead at the feet of the horrified onlookers. At night, in passages and alleys, their shrill little death-cries could be clearly heard. In the mornings the bodies 'were found lining the gutters, each with a gout of blood, like a red flower, on its tapering muzzle; some were bloated and already beginning to rot, others rigid, with their whiskers still erect. Even in the busy heart of the town you found them piled in little heaps on landings and in backyards. Some stole forth to die singly in the halls of public offices, in school playgrounds, and even on cafe terraces. Our townsfolk were amazed to Find such busy centers as the Place d'Armes, the boulevards, the promenade along the waterfront, dotted with repulsive little corpses. After the daily clean-up of the town, which took place at sunrise, there was a brief respite; then gradually the rats began to appear again in numbers that went on increasing throughout the day. People out at night would often feel underfoot the squelchy roundness of a still-warm body. It was as if the earth on which our houses stood were being purged of its secreted humors; thrusting up to the surface the abscesses and pus-clots that had been forming in its entrails. You must picture the consternation of our little town, hitherto so tranquil, and now, out of the blue, shaken to its core, like a quite healthy man who all of a sudden feels his temperature shoot up and the blood seething like wildfire in his veins.
　　Things went so far that the Ransdoc Information Bureau （inquiries on all subjects promptly and accurately answered）, which ran a free-information talk on the radio, by way of publicity, began its talk by announcing that no less than 6 231 rats had been collected and burned in a single day, April 25. Giving as it did an ampler and more precise view of the scene daily enacted before our eyes, this amazing figure administered a jolt to the public nerves. Hitherto people had merely grumbled at a stupid, rather obnoxious visitation; they now realized that this strange phenomenon, whose scope could not be measured and whose origins escaped detection, had something vaguely menacing about it. Only the old Spaniard whom Dr. Rieux was treating for asthma went on rubbing his hands and chuckling： "They're coming out, they're coming out," with senile glee.
　　On April 28, when the Ransdoc Bureau announced that 8 000 rats had been collected, a wave of something like panic swept the town. There was a demand for drastic measures, the authorities were accused of slackness, and people who had houses on the coast spoke of moving there, early in the year though it was. But next day the bureau informed them that the phenomenon had abrupdy ended and the sanitary service had collected only a trifling number of rats. Everyone breathed more freely.
　　It was, however, on this same day, at noon, that Dr. Rieux, when parking his car in front of the apartment house where he lived, noticed the concierge coming toward him from the end of the street. He was dragging himself along, his head bent, arms and legs curiously splayed out, with the jerky movements of a clockwork doll. The old man was leaning on the arm of a priest whom the doctor knew.
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PART 1
CHAPTER 1
CHAPTER 2
CHAPTER 3
CHAPTER 4
CHAPTER 5
CHAPTER 6
CHAPTER 7
CHAPTER 8

PART 2
CHAPTER 1
CHAPTER 2
CHAPTER 3
CHAPTER 4
CHAPTER 5
CHAPTER 6
CHAPTER 7
CHAPTER 8
CHAPTER 9

PART 3
CHAPTER 1

PART 4
CHAPTER 1
CHAPTER 2
CHAPTER 3
CHAPTER 4
CHAPTER 5
CHAPTER 6
CHAPTER 7

PART 5
CHAPTER 1
CHAPTER 2
CHAPTER 3
CHAPTER 4
CHAPTER 5