Part 1 of 5 · freeIntroduction
The Myth of Sisyphus, published in 1942, is where Albert Camus founded his thinking on the absurd. Written in the middle of the Second World War, it asks how to live without comforting illusions: no religious faith, no political utopias.
Camus leans on Sisyphus, the king of Corinth condemned by the gods to useless, endless work, to turn despair into an ethic of freedom. The essay stands beside the novel The Stranger in the cycle of the absurd.
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- 2The divorce between man and the world
- 3The escape routes
- 4One must imagine Sisyphus happy
- 5From the absurd to revolt
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