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MYTH OF SISYPHUS
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Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we
see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution.
They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and
destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals
and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.
Inspired by the myth of a man condemned to ceaselessly push a rock up a mountain and
watch it roll back to the valley below, The Myth of Sisyphus transformed
twentieth-century philosophy with its impassioned argument for the value of life in a
world without religious meaning.
Albert Camus was born in Algeria in 1913. He studied philosophy at the
University of Algiers, then became a journalist, as well as organising the Theatre de
l'équipe, a young avant-garde dramatic group. His early essays were collected in L'Envers
et l'endroit (The Wrong Side and the Right Side) and Noces (Nuptials). As a
young man, he went to Paris, where he worked on the newspaper Paris Soir before
returning to Algiers. His play, Caligula, appeared in 1939, while his first two
important books, L'Etranger (The Outsider) and the philosophical essays collected
in Le Mythe de Sisyphe (The Myth of Sisyphus), were published when he returned to
Paris. After the occupation of France by the Germans in 194o, Camus became one of the
intellectual leaders of the Resistance movement. He edited and contributed to the
underground newspaper Combat, which he had helped to found. After the war, he
devoted himself to writing and established an international reputation with such books as La
Peste (The Plague) (1947), Les Justes (The Just) (1949) and La Chute
(The Fall) (1956). During the late 1950s, Camus renewed his active interest in the
theatre, writing and directing stage adaptations of William Faulkner's Requiem for a
Nun and Dostoyevsky's The Possessed. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for
Literature in 1957. Camus was killed in a road accident in 1960. His last novel, Le
Premier Homme (The First Man), unfinished at the time of his death, appeared for the
first time in 1994. An instant bestseller, the book received widespread critical acclaim,
and has been translated and published in over thirty countries.
134 pages, Paperback
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