SOURCE: "Juan and Sisyphus in Carpentier's 'El camino de Santiago'," in Hispania, Vol. XLVIII, No. 1, March, 1965, pp. 70-5.
In the following excerpt, Verzasconi discusses the thematic and symbolic development of the Sisyphus myth in "Highroad of St. James," drawing parallels between Carpentier's adaptation and Albert Camus' efforts in Myth de Sisyphe.
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