![]() ![]() It is a passionate revolt that answers the question of the meaning of life: if there is any raison d’étre worthy of the name, it is born of a piece of trembling flesh. Camus understood early on that reason – the traditional weapon of philosophy – would always be powerless to address the futile, ill-fated game of existence.Įven so, the work essentially represents a manifesto for revolt and the ecstasy of life. It emerges from the fracture between the soul’s desperate desire for clarity and the incomprehensibility of reality, the gap between our craving for meaning and the cold grave that awaits us. He sums up man’s tragic existence in one word: the absurd. From the viewpoint of eternity, we are passions that can never be satisfied, cries that go unheard. In The Myth of Sisyphus Albert Camus seeks his own answer to the question that Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky and Nietzsche have bequeathed to us: is it possible to live without God, without any hope of salvation as death looms? At first sight the outlook is bleak: we are, says Camus, thrust into existence as into an exile with no return. ![]() “I have never written anything that was not, either directly or indirectly, linked to the country in which I was born.” ![]()
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