Mapping the elements of absurdism in Albert Camus’
The myth of Sisyphus Nirmit Bhatnagar B.A(hons) English Vth Sem A7706113044
Abstract
The preliminary aim of this research paper is to map the elements of absurdism in Albert Camus’ The Myth of Sisyphus. This research paper also studies the development of Albert Camus as an absurdist and also sheds light on people who contributed towards his career. The paper …show more content…
Absurd themes were expressed with more sophistication in his second collection of essays, Noces (Nuptials), in 1938. In these essays Camus reflects on the experience of the Absurd. In 1942 he published the story of a man living an absurd life as L'Étranger (The Stranger). In the same year he released Le Mythe de Sisyphe (The Myth of Sisyphus), a literary essay on the Absurd. He also wrote a play about Caligula, a Roman Emperor, pursuing an absurd logic. The play was not performed until 1945.
The turning point in Camus's attitude to the Absurd occurs in a collection of four letters to an anonymous German friend, written between July 1943 and July 1944. The first was published in the Revue Libre in 1943, the second in the Cahiers de Libération in 1944, and the third in the newspaper Libertés, in 1945. The four letters were published as Lettres à un ami allemand (Letters to a German Friend) in 1945, and were included in the collection Resistance, Rebellion, and
The myth of Sisyphus Nirmit Bhatnagar B.A(hons) English Vth Sem A7706113044
Abstract
The preliminary aim of this research paper is to map the elements of absurdism in Albert Camus’ The Myth of Sisyphus. This research paper also studies the development of Albert Camus as an absurdist and also sheds light on people who contributed towards his career. The paper …show more content…
Absurd themes were expressed with more sophistication in his second collection of essays, Noces (Nuptials), in 1938. In these essays Camus reflects on the experience of the Absurd. In 1942 he published the story of a man living an absurd life as L'Étranger (The Stranger). In the same year he released Le Mythe de Sisyphe (The Myth of Sisyphus), a literary essay on the Absurd. He also wrote a play about Caligula, a Roman Emperor, pursuing an absurd logic. The play was not performed until 1945.
The turning point in Camus's attitude to the Absurd occurs in a collection of four letters to an anonymous German friend, written between July 1943 and July 1944. The first was published in the Revue Libre in 1943, the second in the Cahiers de Libération in 1944, and the third in the newspaper Libertés, in 1945. The four letters were published as Lettres à un ami allemand (Letters to a German Friend) in 1945, and were included in the collection Resistance, Rebellion, and