![]() ![]() During this ‘dialogue’ with the ‘stubborn’ death, their perspectives on life and disease take a turn. Each of the characters begins the ‘conversation’ with death with a particular perspective on the disease. ![]() In the complex labyrinth of a plague, Camus’s characters in La Peste (The Plague, 1947) are in ‘negotiation’ with death in this French Algerian city in the 1940s. The underlying reason to study ‘The Plague’, thus, is to understand the current pandemic with all its complexity. ![]() With the current Covid-19 pandemic, we witness the fictional story of an epidemic in the city of Oran in Albert Camus’s ‘The Plague’ becoming real and Oran becoming a synonym of any city in the world. The fear of incomprehensible death gives a new meaning to life in times of an epidemic. Understanding Death in the Times of Epidemic: Perspectives in La peste Keywords: epidemic, death, perspective, relative, absolute This paper is interested in reading the meaning of death in an epidemic as perceived by different characters in ‘The Plague’. Does this epidemic give a new meaning to the ultimate truth, i.e., death? Does this truth become relative, or does it remain absolute? The interpretive philosophy of perspectivism emphasises the individual’s point of view rather than the absolute truth. This paper analyses the concept of death as an inevitable consequence of an epidemic in ‘The Plague’ through the prism of the epistemological principle of perspectivism of Friedrich Nietzsche, the 19 th century German Philosopher. ![]()
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