...In the early years of his career, before The Myth of Sisyphus and The Stranger made their mark, Albert Camus was far better known as a journalist than in any other capacity. He published articles between 1944 and 1947 in Combat, an underground...

... of the body, life, and nature—to revel in the moment and the pleasures of the world. In such works as The Myth of Sisyphus, Camus enjoined what he called mésure. Following upon the presentments of Fyodor Dostoevsky, especially as addressed in The Demons, Camus...

...In the wake of his early fascination with Arthur Schopenhauer’s dark pessimism, Friedrich Nietzsche discovered that Yes had an energizing and terrifying power in ancient Greek tragedy. In Albert Camus’s 1942 essay The Myth of Sisyphus, repetition drives home the pointlessness...

... recalls and involves a rereading of Albert Camus' “The Myth of Sisyphus,” wherein Sisyphus also encounters a meaningless existence and purpose, but labors on with his task of pushing his rock up the mountain. The chapter thus explores comparisons between Camus' Absurdism against Beckett's own heroes...

...Camus’ essay, The Myth of Sisyphus, is a study of what Camus calls “the Absurd”. This chapter explores the various interpretations of that idea, including human mortality and the absurdity of repetition. Absurd the Kant Immanuel Kierkegaard Soren Nausea Sartre Kitsch Myth...