Epidemics and world literature: transformations of social behavior in Boccaccio’s "The Decameron", A. Pushkin’s "A Feast in the Time of Plague", and A. Camus’ "The Plague"

Abstract

The study aims to scrutinize the aforementioned three literary works and uncover the behaviors displayed by people during epidemics at the time of broader crises. The study has two main objectives: to identify various models of human behavior that emerge as a result of psychological pressure during moments of broader danger; to interpret these models and uncover significant existentialontological messages contained in their inner domains within the context of the literary texts in the context of these literary works