The myth of Sisyphus / Albert Camus

Public ISBD Titre : The myth of Sisyphus Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Albert Camus ; Justin O'Brien Editeur : London [England] : Penguin Books Année de publication : 2000 Collection : Penguin classics Importance : 191 p. Présentation : couv. ill. en coul. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-14-118200-1 Langues : Anglais Catégories : LITTERATURE ET LANGUE ANGLAISE:828 English literature Mots-clés : philosophical  statement  fundamental  question  Myth  essays  Algiers  Oran  novel Résumé : here is only one really serious philosophical problem, namely suicide.” The famous opening of Le Mythe de Sisyphe has all the hallmarks of Albert Camus’s work: the journalist’s feel for the arresting phrase, the promise of philosophical profundity that perhaps never fully materializes in the arguments that follow. First published during the humiliations of the Nazi occupation, it has seemed to some critics that the “Absurd” of which the book speaks is more a reflection of the collapse of the moral order in collaborationist France than of the enduring pathology in the human condition. Yet like all great works of literature The Myth of Sisyphus succeeds, in the end, in transcending the particular circumstances of its creation – not least because of the limpid purity… The myth of Sisyphus [texte imprimé] / Albert Camus ; Justin O'Brien . - London (England) : Penguin Books, 2000 . - 191 p. : couv. ill. en coul. ; 20 cm. - (Penguin classics) . ISBN : 978-0-14-118200-1 Langues : Anglais Catégories : LITTERATURE ET LANGUE ANGLAISE:828 English literature Mots-clés : philosophical  statement  fundamental  question  Myth  essays  Algiers  Oran  novel Résumé : here is only one really serious philosophical problem, namely suicide.” The famous opening of Le Mythe de Sisyphe has all the hallmarks of Albert Camus’s work: the journalist’s feel for the arresting phrase, the promise of philosophical profundity that perhaps never fully materializes in the arguments that follow. First published during the humiliations of the Nazi occupation, it has seemed to some critics that the “Absurd” of which the book speaks is more a reflection of the collapse of the moral order in collaborationist France than of the enduring pathology in the human condition. Yet like all great works of literature The Myth of Sisyphus succeeds, in the end, in transcending the particular circumstances of its creation – not least because of the limpid purity…

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