The Myth of Sisyphus

Camus, Albert
Publisher:  Penguin Books, England
Year First Published:  {12302 The Myth of Sisyphus MYTH OF SISYPHUS Camus, Albert Penguin Books England 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." 1955 1975 192pp BC12302s-MythofSisyphus.jpg B Book 142.7 - <br> <br> <br>Table of Contents <br> <br>Preface <br> <br>The Myth of Sisyphus <br> <br>An Absurd Reasoning <br>Arbsurdity and Suicide <br>Absurd Walls <br>Philosophical Suicide <br>Absurd Freedom <br> <br>The Absurd Man <br>Don Juanism <br>Drama <br>Conquest <br> <br>Absurd Creation <br>Philosophy and Fiction <br>Kirilov <br>Ephemeral Creation <br> <br>The Myth of Sisyphus <br> <br>Appendix <br>Hope and the Absurd in the Work of Franz Kafka <br> <br>Summer in Algiers <br>The Minotaur or The Stop in Oran <br>Helen's Exile <br>Return to Tipasa <br>The Artist and his Time CX6442 1 false true false CX6442.htm [0xc0009b2f60 0xc001fcd410 0xc000666db0] Cx}
Year Published:  1975
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."

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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

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