This essay, which has an appendix concerning Franz Kafka, concludes that "The struggle is enough to fill a man's heart," after showing that the conflict between the human desire for reason and the unreasonable universe makes life "absurd.
This work claims that the essential impulse of human drama is the desire to reduce the world to a single principle, a desire it calls "nostalgia for unity." It describes a type of man who seeks an eternal victory in which to remake man and the earth, the "conqueror," after sections on drama and "Don Juanism." This essay, which has an appendix concerning Franz Kafka, concludes that "The struggle is enough to fill a man's heart," after showing that the conflict between the human desire for reason and the unreasonable universe makes life "absurd." This essay claims that the only important philosophical problem is the problem of suicide. For 10 points, name this essay in which Albert Camus writes that we must imagine the title Greek character "happy" as he rolls his boulder up the hill.
This work claims that the essential impulse of human drama is the desire to reduce the world to a single principle, a desire it calls "nostalgia for unity.
The Myth of Sisyphus [or Le Mythe de Sisyphe]