Camus’ Oran and Saramago’s Blind City: A Representation of the World during the COVID-19 Pandemic

This article studies the city spaces in Albert Camus’ “The Plague” and Jose Saramago’s “Blindness.” In light of COVID-19, the article reads these two literary texts in terms of their spatial settings that represent fictional microcosms of the real world engulfed in the COVID-19 pandemic. It also dem...

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Published in:	The international journal of critical cultural studies Vol. 21; no. 1; pp. 15 - 28
Main Authors:	Dagamseh, Abdullah M., Odaibat, Zainab, S. Sasa, Ghada
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Madrid Common Ground Research Networks 01.01.2022
Subjects:	Blindness Camus, Albert (1913-1960) Cities Coronaviruses COVID-19 French literature Hostility Pandemics Plague Saramago, Jose (1922-2010) Simmel, Georg (1858-1918) Urban areas Urban structure
ISSN:	2327-0055, 2327-2376
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