Human fragility and its environment in the literary production of Albert Camus

Abstract

The article sheds light on one of the intellectual and fundamental issues of the French writer Albert Camus, who tried to determine how to confront human fragility in various circumstances such as wars, misery, and indifference to the suffering of others, and the disasters experienced by human societies. Albert Camus takes us on a journey through his creative imagination and important literary works to search for how modern man can escape from his crises. This article is based on dealing with human fragility and the world in which he lives in a number of his theatrical and fictional works, the following: Misunderstanding (Malentendu), Caligula (Caligula), and La Peste (The Plague). The article consisted of several axes for the purpose of answering a number of questions that revolved around ways to rid man of the causes of his weakness and fragility in the ordeals he is exposed to. The fragility of the human situation and ways to address it, according to Camus' philosophical vision, which is based on absurdity and rebellion.