Different Variations of the Artistic Narrative of the Pandemic: Albert Camus’ „The Plague“, Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s „Love in time of Cholera“ and Jaba Zarqua’s „The first lane of Vazha-Pshavela“

Abstract

Historical experience has shown that pandemic radically changes prepandemic life style. The values is being re-evaluated and all the problems that seemed to be covered before are coming to the fore with all their intensity. Literature expresses the impact of pandemic on people’s lives from different sides. Putting different accents depends on both – the Epoch and the author’s individual point of view and the quarantine and isolation have a significant impact on the chronotope of the text as  well. The subject of our discussion is Albert Camus’ “The Plague”, Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s “Love in time of Cholera” and Jaba Zarqua’s “ The firs lane of Vazha-Pshavela” what are instant reflections on the pandemic. We will focus on the purpose for which these texts were created, how the past catastrophes became not only an integral part of the authors’ point of view but foundation for a new philosophical thought. We are supposed to talk about the role of quarantine and isolation, how they transform the rime and space described in the texts, what kind of metamorphosis they push the characters to Comparative analysis of research texts reveals many interesting things.