This paper discusses the idea of the epidemic and existential questions flowing from it on the absurdity of life and the anxiety of death, referencing two philosophical novels: Albert Camus' The Plague, full of unsettling events that disturb the incautious self and awaken the question buried in its depths; a novel that refuses the assurances of metaphysical answers and destroys fixed essences and Platonic persons, claiming that philosophy - with Camus - is still lying in wait for the truth in order to arrive at the fixed essence hidden behind the becoming, because man appears to be absent in a world without centers or facts. We have also invoked José Saramago's Blindness, a terrifying novel whose surrealist methods in the mastery of symbols brimming with mysteries, which the author presents the reader, inviting her to decipher codes and probe depths of the self to expose forces constricting the breath. Saramago writes on blindness as an epidemic afflicting a small town and revealing the forms of banishment and alienation that divert the individual from his free and responsible core and casts him into labyrinths that obscure the facts of reality from him, suggesting that violence and profiling runs rife in contemporary life and uses democracy and modernity as a mask to conceal its taming mechanisms.