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- Title
'Authenticity' A Sartrean Study of Albert Camus's The Plague.
- Authors
Famila, Y. Mercy
- Abstract
Man exist in- situation. To exist in-situation means that we are an integral part of the universe and the cultural world that envelops it. In this world, we are less than angels, more than machines. Situation is an ambiguous mixture of what Sartre calls our 'facticity' and our 'transcendence'. 'Facticity' denotes the givens of our situation such as our race and nationality, our talents and limitations. 'Transcendence' or the reach that our consciousness extends beyond these givens, denotes the takens of our situation, namely how we face up to this facticity. The expression 'situation' is uncertain in the sense that one cannot measure off the precise contribution of what is given and what is taken in each situation. This paper studies how the characters in Albert Camus' novel The Plague are inclined to deny the cruelty of their situation and hide themselves in their illusory world governed by habit. Further, using the theories of Sartre it proves that they too, are existentialists.
- Subjects
PLAGUE, The (Book : Camus); CAMUS, Albert, 1913-1960; ILLUSION in literature; TRANSCENDENCE (Philosophy); PERMANENCE in literature; 20TH century French literature; EXISTENTIALISM in literature; SARTRE, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980; LITERARY criticism; FRENCH literature
- Publication
Writers Editors Critics, 2015, Vol 5, Issue 1, p31
- ISSN
2231-198X
- Publication type
Literary Criticism