  This link between artistic expression and meaning leads to a major re-evaluation of the notion of style. Rather than a superficial way of formulating meanings that remain unchanged by their expression, style in this context now indicates a fundamental perspective from which the world can be approached; it indicates a perspective that would not have existed prior to the expressive act. It designates an “irreplaceable deviation” that is possible only from a specific way of being-in-the-world, and which is subsequently recaptured in symbolic language, whether the linguistic form of literature, or the “indirect language” of painting. Style is a coherent perspective, a “coherent deformation,” a way of being-in-the-world and of approaching the world from a certain angle. On this model, style does not express pre-existing meaning, but creates it. Camus, in the pages of The Rebel devoted to the aesthetic dimensions of rebellion, developed a concomitant conception of artistic expression: