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 work is distinguished by lucidity, moderation, and toler...

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 a journalist and aspiring writer. In 1942, with the p...

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 tough, underprivileged background to become one of th...

Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 The Myth Of Sisyphus The notion that life is "rational" comes primarily from the Greeks. As early as Homer, we may note the large areas of reality which have come under the domination of intelligence, and the growing assumption culminating in...

Most parents who have had to rely on any person paid to offer residential, educational, or vocational support for their child with disabilities are probably very much aware that finding and keeping qualified support professionals is a bit like the underworld sentence of...

In The Myth of Sisyphus,… Camus provided us with a precise commentary upon [The Stranger]. His hero was neither good nor bad, neither moral nor immoral. These categories do not apply to him. He belongs to a very particular species for which the author reserves the word "absurd." But in Camus's work this word takes on two very different meanings. The absurd is both a state of fact and the lucid awareness which certain people acquire of this state of fact. The "absurd"...

The movement … from unconsciousness to consciousness and despair and back to unconsciousness, has been analysed by Albert Camus in his essay The Myth of Sisyphus. (pp. 278-79) Camus' essay deals exclusively with … the question of one's response to the awareness that life has no transcendent meaning. The essay "attempts to resolve the problem of suicide … without the aid of eternal values which, temporarily perhaps, are absent or distorted in contemporary Europe.�...

A detailed look at the philosophical elements of Albert Camus' The Myth of Sisyphus. Includes a consideration of the way in which Camus relates the mythical tale to the human condition, in terms of Sisyphus' perception of the absurdity of his situation and the way in which he has defeated the gods through his self-awareness.

People in the real world are much like the hero in Albert Camus' The Myth of Sisyphus. We all bear the burden of facing our failures, realizing the ridulousness of our plight, and yet continuing forward in our attempts for success.

Analyzes the Myth of Sisyphus. Discusses if Sisyphus was really sentenced to a life of misery or if he was happy. Explores themes of joy and sorrow.