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 The Myth of SisyphusCamus, Albert Publisher: Penguin Books, EnglandYear Published: 1975 First Published: 1955 Pages: 192pp Dewey: 142.7 Resource Type: Book Cx Number: CX6442 Camus asks whether life has meaning, and whether suicide is a legimitate response to the absurdity of life. He says: "Although The Myth of Sisyphus poses mortal problems, it sums itself up for me as a lucid invitation to live and to create, in the very midst of the desert." Abstract: - Table of Contents Preface The Myth of Sisyphus An Absurd Reasoning Arbsurdity and Suicide Absurd Walls Philosophical Suicide Absurd Freedom The Absurd Man Don Juanism Drama Conquest Absurd Creation Philosophy and Fiction Kirilov Ephemeral Creation The Myth of Sisyphus Appendix Hope and the Absurd in the Work of Franz Kafka Summer in Algiers The Minotaur or The Stop in Oran Helen's Exile Return to Tipasa The Artist and his Time Subject Headings |