Revisiting ‘The Plague’ by Camus: Shaping the ‘social absurdity’ of the COVID-19 Pandemic

D. Banerjee, T.S. Rao, R.A. Kallivayalil & A. Javedd

November 4, 2020

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Camus argues, art is valuable only insofar as it promotes creators’ or recipients’ awareness of the absurd and their attitude of revolt. The solution to the ‘absurdity’ at the face of COVID-19 is to achieve creativity & personal meaning, eventually decreasing the pan-panic and implement better coping and growth.
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