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Camus penned probably his greatest work, The Myth. Not so, argued Albert Camus (November 7, 1913January 4, 1960) a decade earlier in The Myth of Sisyphus ( public library ), which begins with what has become one of the most famous opening sentences in literature and one of the most profound accomplishments of philosophy. With lyric eloquence, Albert Camus brilliantly posits a way out of despair, reaffirming the value of personal existence, and the possibility of life lived. It’s just you, as an individual person, lost in a big universe that doesn’t care. Camus' highly systematic literary project, which was cut short by his accidental death in 1959, means that the significance of Sisyphus ramifies across his works. Camus said that there was no purpose no meaning in the world. In order to evaluate both criticisms, the chapter shows that the matrix of meaning Camus constructs around Sisyphus evolves through critical interaction with classical texts and their scholarly, philosophical, and poetic reception. His handling of Sisyphus has given rise to charges of both philosophical obtuseness and 'unmythical' and 'ahistorical' allegorizing. It shows how Camus' beliefs about the human condition determine his parsing and interpretation of the myth's elements. The chapter explores the Greek and Roman texts and their interpreters which helped Camus to arrive at the 'zero point' of The Myth of Sisyphus. Camus' highly systematic literary project, which was cut short by his accidental death in 1959, means that the significance of Sisyphus ramifies across his works.ĪB - The purpose of this chapter is to investigate how Albert Camus gives meaning to just one myth, that of Sisyphus.
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The gods put a stop to this and as a punishment, he was cursed to roll a huge boulder up a hill, only to watch it roll down again every time - and had to repeat this for eternity. Sisyphus is a figure from Greek mythology who has been condemned by the gods to roll a boulder up a steep hill, only to have it roll back down where he must repeat this task infinitely. N2 - The purpose of this chapter is to investigate how Albert Camus gives meaning to just one myth, that of Sisyphus. The work can be seen in relation to other works by Camus: the novel The Stranger (1942), the play Caligula (1945). Sisyphus was punished by the gods for imprisoning Death - for a short period time, all humans were immortal.