The Myth of Sisyphus (Le Mythe de Sisyphe, 1942), subtitled 'An Absurd Reasoning', is Albert Camus's central philosophical essay, opening with the claim that suicide is 'the one truly serious philosophical problem' and closing with the image of Sisyphus, condemned to push his boulder up the mountain forever, whom Camus insists we must imagine happy.
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The essay was published in French in 1942.
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The Myth of Sisyphus (French: Le mythe de Sisyphe, pronounced [lə mit də sizif]) is a 1942 philosophical work by Albert Camus. Influenced by philosophers such as Søren Kierkegaard, Arthur Schopenhauer, and Friedrich Nietzsche, Camus introduces his philosophy of the absurd.
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Associated With: The Essay, Subtitled 'An Absurd Reasoning' in the original French edition; structured and read as a sustained philosophical essay rather than fiction.
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