The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

1959191 pagesAlfred A. Knopf

Albert Camus explores the fundamental question of existence in a universe without inherent meaning. Beginning with a meditation on suicide, these essays examine the human condition and the concept of the absurd. Camus ultimately proposes a path to dignity and authenticity, suggesting that value can be found in personal existence despite despair.

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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...