Red Plague

Red Plague Book Description

Jack London's novel The Red Plague, published serially in The London Magazine in 1912, is considered one of the first post-apocalyptic texts of modern literature. In his novel, London envisions a "new" world, which is extremely likely to happen, in which a worldwide epidemic that broke out in 2013 wiped out almost the entire human race from the face of the earth and primitive life returned. It deals with the importance of isolation during the epidemic process, the role of population density, especially the world population, in epidemics, the selfishness of people in extremely critical situations, the confrontation between collectivism and individualism, and the dedication of scientists in an extremely realistic manner.

What London wrote 108 years ago, who included the issues we are currently experiencing in his book, now proves that the deepest crisis, of which we are actors rather than spectators, is not unpredictable, in other words, a "black swan" case, and that human-centered approaches are not enough to understand the world. In this context, the Red Plague deserves to be re-read from a different perspective, a century after it was written.

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

Dough Type: 2nd Dough

Number of Pages: 80

Size: 12.5 x 19.5

First Print Year: 2020

Number of Printings: 1st Edition

Language Turkish