The Plague Doctor Redux

Camus in the Age of COVID

Chōkōdō Shujin on Camus, COVID, and the ferocious mechanisms of the new normal.

A ferocious and senseless mechanism deprives man of his only means and purpose: he is a human being.

— Hideo Kobayashi

Hideo Kobayashi was a man of immense will and foresight. His deftly penetrating essay on Albert Camus’s La Peste [The Plague] offers a thorough, profound exami…