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Mito de Sisifo

Pages
74
Published
2000
Language
Spanish

Synopsis

Albert Camus confronts the most serious question: suicide. He explores the feeling of absurdity that arises when humanity's search for meaning clashes with a silent, unreasonable world. This essay examines the human condition and the search for purpose in a meaningless existence.

About the author

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Albert Camus

Albert Camus was a French Algerian author, philosopher, and journalist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. He was a key philosopher of the 20th-century and his most famous work is the novel L'Étranger (The Stranger). In 1949, Camus founded the Group for International Liaisons within the Revolutionary Union Movement, which was a group opposed to some tendencies of the surrealistic movement of André Breton. Camus was the second-youngest recipient of the Nobel Prize for L...

Frequently asked questions

  • Is this book intended to be read alongside other works by Albert Camus?

    The text is often viewed as a thematic companion to his novel The Stranger, as both were published in the same year and explore the author's foundational philosophy of the absurd.

  • Does the book contain only the essay about Sisyphus?

    Many editions are published as a collection titled The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays, which includes additional philosophical writings beyond the titular essay.

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