The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays by Albert Camus

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The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays Summary

The Myth of Sisyphus is a collection of essays written over the course of about twenty years that revolve around the subjects of freedom from ideology and meaning and living life to the fullest degree. The title essay, which makes up the majority of the collection, investigates these concepts in an abstract, philosophical manner, while the rest of the essays are illustrations of the principles contained in the first.

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Albert Camus Biographies (3)

Albert Camus

1,315 words, approx. 5 pages

The French novelist, essayist, and playwright Albert Camus (1913-1960) was obsessed with the philosophical problems of the meaning of life and of man's search for values in a world without God. His wo... Read more

Albert Camus

5,329 words, approx. 18 pages

Literary scholars place Albert Camus as North Africa's first writer of consequence. A pied-nort, or French citizen born in Algeria while it was a colony of France still, Camus emerged from a decidedly... Read more

Albert Camus

13,866 words, approx. 47 pages

Albert Camus is one of the best-known twentieth-century French authors. Born and raised in North Africa, after the beginning of World War II he moved to Paris where he intended to pursue his career as... Read more

Essays & Analysis (5)

Critical Essay by Allen Simpson

284 words, approx. 1 pages

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Critical Essay by Jean-paul Sartre

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The Myth of Sisyphus

637 words, approx. 3 pages

In the Myth of Sisyphus, we learn that disobedience to the Gods can bring about serious consequences. In Sisyphus' case, his punishment would see him spending the rest of his days pushing an enormou... Read more

681 words, approx. 3 pages

"Where would his torture be, indeed, if at every step the hope of succeeding upheld him? The workman of today works everyday in his life at the same tasks, and his fate is no less absurd." I believe t... Read more

The Myth of Sisyphus

1,823 words, approx. 7 pages

Albert Camus' The Myth of Sisyphus is not simply a re-telling of the myth itself, but also an interpretation of the way in which the myth can be re... Read more

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