Great Ideas Myth of Sisyphus Mass market paperbound - 2005
by Albert Camus
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Readers broadly regard Albert Camus’s The Myth of Sisyphus as a seminal, provocative meditation on absurdism and the question of suicide. Many praise its lyrical, aphoristic prose and the galvanizing thesis of lucid revolt—epitomized by the closing injunction to imagine Sisyphus happy. The book’s reach across literature and philosophy (from Kafka to Nietzsche) is frequently noted, and several readers describe it as clarifying or even consoling in confronting meaninglessness. At the same time, many report that it is dense, conceptually demanding, and best approached with background knowledge or rereading; some find portions paradoxical, arid, or incoherent, and religious readers often object to its conclusions. Translation and appendix nuances surface in a few comments. Overall, it’s an influential but polarizing classic that challenges, stimulates, and resists easy consensus.
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- Title Great Ideas Myth of Sisyphus
- Author Albert Camus
- Binding Mass Market Paperbound
- Edition International Ed
- Pages 144
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin UK, London
- Publication date 2005
- ISBN 9780141023991 / 0141023996
- Weight 0.2 lbs (0.09 kg)
- Dimensions 7.07 x 4.35 x 0.33 in (17.96 x 11.05 x 0.84 cm)
- Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
- Dewey Decimal Code 844.914
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