For 10 points, name this essay that opens by questioning the necessity of suicide, an Albert Camus work named for a figure from Greek myth who rolls a stone up a mountain.
This essay attacks the distinction between the philosopher and the artist, arguing that they both must work to forge their own perspective on life. Â It goes on to describe the challenge of the artist as describing without explaining. Â This essay visualizes a man talking animatedly behind a sheet of glass as seeing a naked thing, while it uses the scenario of a virtuous man who wants to have sex with his sister to illustrate a concept defined as the unity of (*) conflicting ideals. Â It concludes by claiming that we must imagine the title character to be happy, and it presents Don Juan, the actor, and the conqueror as three examples of the absurd man. Â For 10 points, name this essay that opens by questioning the necessity of suicide, an Albert Camus work named for a figure from Greek myth who rolls a stone up a mountain.
This essay attacks the distinction between the philosopher and the artist, arguing that they both must work to forge their own perspective on life.
The Myth of Sisyphus