The Myth of Sisyphus, 9780141023991
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Meaningless world? Find value in life’s absurdity, dare to rebel.
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The Myth of Sisyphus

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    144 pages

  • Release Date

    25 August 2005

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Summary

The Absurd Hero: Finding Meaning in a Meaningless World

Throughout history, some books have changed the world, transforming how we see ourselves and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war, and revolution; enlightened, outraged, provoked, and comforted; enriched and destroyed lives.

Inspired by the myth of Sisyphus, condemned to endlessly push a rock uphill only to watch it roll back down, The Myth of Sisyphus revolutionized twentieth-century philosophy.…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780141023991
ISBN-10:0141023996
Series:Penguin Great Ideas
Author:Albert Camus
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Books Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:144
Edition:1st
Release Date:25 August 2005
Weight:90g
Dimensions:181mm x 111mm x 8mm
About The Author

Albert Camus

Albert Camus was born in Algeria in 1913. His childhood was poor, although not unhappy. He studied philosophy at the University of Algiers, and became a journalist as well as organizing the Theatre de l’equipe, a young avant-garde dramatic group.

His early essays were collected in L’Envers et l’endroit (The Wrong Side and the Right Side) and Noces (Nuptials). He went to Paris, where he worked on the newspaper Paris Soir before returning to Algeria. His play, Caligula, appeared in 1939. His first two important books, L’Etranger (The Outsider) and the long essay Le Mythe de Sisyphe (The Myth of Sisyphus), were published when he returned to Paris.

After the occupation of France by the Germans in 1941, Camus became one of the intellectual leaders of the Resistance movement. He edited and contributed to the underground newspaper Combat, which he had helped to found. After the war he devoted himself to writing and established an international reputation. Celebrated in intellectual circles, Camus was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. On January 4, 1960, he was killed in a car accident.

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