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The Myth of Sisyphus

by Albert Camus

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Thrin in Book talk : Another silly game---part 6 (Apr 21, 2008, 7:01am)

The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus corrected thpelling

Meh_ssdd in Existentialism : authors and works (Dec 12, 2007, 12:01am)

... I'm going to take a moment here to admit that the only Camus I've read is The Stranger and I'm not really familiar with The Myth of Sisyphus, so I would benefit from a more detailed explanation. The nebulous ideas around existentialism might also make this discussion a little muddied. But I ...

EncompassedRunner in Existentialism : authors and works (Nov 26, 2007, 2:57am)

The existentialist beauty of Camus' short story The Myth of Sisyphus is in the very end--the very, very end. Pure existentialism there.

Marensr in Hogwarts Express : What''s your Top Ten? (Nov 10, 2007, 10:42pm)

... . 1 I Capture the Castle 2 Le Grand Meaulnes 3 A Room With A view 4 Catch 22 5 Persuasion 6 Posession 7 The Myth of Sisyphus and other essays 8 The Man Who Was Thursday 9 Flame Trees of Thika 10 A Room of One's Own Honorable mention The Country of Pointed Firs O ...

bikerevolution in Emporia SLIM SCALA : Required Reading (Oct 2, 2007, 2:03am)

... was chalked full of new info for me, and really led me to see the prison system in a different way. The Stranger by Camus and Doestoyevsky's Crime and Punishment were amazing political and religious commentaries (in sort of opposite ways), and I will never stop advocating for Harper ...

jargoneer in The Literati : Disappointment... (Sep 9, 2007, 1:05pm)

The Stranger is a continuation of the idea of the Absurd that Camus had already outlined in The Myth of Sisyphus and fictionalised in the play 'Caligula'. Much reduced, absurdism is the opposition between the human search for meaning in their lives and a cold uncaring universe. For Camus people ...

christiguc in List Five Books Parlour Game : The Five People You Wouldn't Meet in Heaven (Aug 31, 2007, 11:16am)

... by Christopher Marlowe Therese Raquin by Emile Zola Ulysses by James Joyce (atleast according to Dante) The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (perhaps, depending on feelings on adultery) The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgeral ...

lizvelrene in Existentialism : authors and works (Sep 1, 2006, 10:11am)

... authors comes in. In the case of Camus, reading The Plague may help you better understand what he's getting at. Like in The Myth of Sisyphus which it sounds like you've read, you have a man performing a seemingly meaningless task at which he can't possibly succeed. But in this case it's a ...

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