Özet:

It is known throughout history that major epidemics have affected human life negatively. Specifically, epidemics such as cholera, Ebola, swelling, HIV/AIDS, Spanish Flu, Sars and Ebola have caused millions of deaths so far. The world continues to fight with the corona virus epidemic, which has emerged in China’s town of Wuhan and has caught more than 5.5 million people, and has killed more than 350 thousand. In the beginning of the works written and translated into many languages, the Veba novel of Albert Camus comes. and II. This novel, written in the years of the World War, apparently fictionally tells the effects of the Ebola disease, but in the background, the death camps prepared by Nazi Germany for the Poles and Jews, reminds of the torture by the French during the Algeria occupation. The author deals with the rebellion of the person who has been forced to live a foolish life in the absurd world of the novel against this meaninglessness in the axis of emotions such as desperation, anxiety and fear. In this study, starting from the novel Veba, we will try to analyze the dimensions of the epidemics affecting humans in the context of COVID-19.

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Özet:

Pandemics have adversely affected the lives of human beings throughout history. Particularly, outbreaks such as cholera, plague, yellow fever, HIV / AIDS, Spanish Flu, Sars and Ebola have killed millions of people to date. At the moment, the whole world is struggling with the Coronavirus epidemic, which has recently emerged in Wuhan, China, where more than 5.5 million people were infected with 350 thousand dead. Albert Camus' novel titled The Plague is among the prominent works regarding the pandemics and has been translated into many languages. Although this novel, written in the years of World War II, explains the effects of plague disease on the surface, the fiction in the novel evokes the concentration camps of Nazi Germany for the Poles and Jews, the torture of the French during the Algerian occupation. The author addresses the revolt of a person who is forced to live a ridiculous life in a ridiculous world on the axis of emotions such as despair, anxiety, and fear in the novel. This study aims to analyse how pandemics affect humans within the scope of COVID-19 based on the novel The Plague.