This work alleges that "All great deeds... have a ridiculous beginning," and imagines a "strangeness" that causes one to perceive that the world is "dense."
This work alleges that "All great deeds... have a ridiculous beginning," and imagines a "strangeness" that causes one to perceive that the world is "dense." A figure in this work is deemed not to be melancholy because "he knows and does not hope," and this work alleges that it is a mistake to look on works of art as "a series of isolated testimonies." This work contains a notable afterword concerning "hope and the absurd in the work of Franz Kafka," and other literary figures analyzed in this work include Kirilov from The Possessed and Don Juan. This work opens by declaring that "There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide," and imagines its title figure as a "proletarian of the gods" and an "absurd hero" who  contemplates his wretched condition during his descent. Concluding with the supposition that "one must imagine" the title character happy, for 10 points, identify this philosophical essay by Albert Camus whose subject is a condemned Greek.
This work alleges that "All great deeds... have a ridiculous beginning," and imagines a "strangeness" that causes one to perceive that the world is "dense."
The Myth of Sisyphus [or Le Mythe de Sisyphe]