As Camus put it in The Myth of Sisyphus, " In a universe that is suddenly deprived of illusions and of light, man feels a stranger.

It is in relation to the concept of the devastating awareness of meaninglessness that Albert Camus claimed that " there is only one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide " in his The Myth of Sisyphus.

* The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus in 1942.

The Myth of Sisyphus is a philosophical essay by Albert Camus.

In the last chapter, Camus outlines the legend of Sisyphus who defied the gods and put Death in chains so that no human needed to die.

Camus is interested in Sisyphus ' thoughts when marching down the mountain, to start anew.

Camus claims that when Sisyphus acknowledges the futility of his task and the certainty of his fate, he is freed to realize the absurdity of his situation and to reach a state of contented acceptance.

With a nod to the similarly cursed Greek hero Oedipus, Camus concludes that " all is well ," indeed, that " ne must imagine Sisyphus happy.

* Chapter 4 of the essay ' The Myth of Sisyphus ', by Albert Camus

* Suicide and Atheism: Camus and The Myth of Sisyphus by Richard Barnett

Camus deals with this matter and Man's relationship with Man via considerations of suicide in the novels A Happy Death and The Plague and in non-fiction works such as The Rebel and The Myth of Sisyphus.

Albert Camus, in his 1942 essay The Myth of Sisyphus, saw Sisyphus as personifying the absurdity of human life, but Camus concludes " one must imagine Sisyphus happy " as " The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart.

Albert Camus, the French absurdist, wrote an essay entitled The Myth of Sisyphus in which he elevates Sisyphus to the status of absurd hero.

" He related these plays based on a broad theme of the Absurd, similar to the way Albert Camus uses the term in his 1942 essay, " The Myth of Sisyphus ".

Absurdism as a belief system was born of the European existentialist movement that ensued, specifically when the French Algerian philosopher and writer Albert Camus rejected certain aspects from that philosophical line of thought and published his essay The Myth of Sisyphus.

Kierkegaard and Camus describe the solutions in their works, The Sickness Unto Death ( 1849 ) and The Myth of Sisyphus ( 1942 ):

* In ' The Myth of Sisyphus ' the French existentialist Albert Camus comments that the age of thirty is a crucial period in the life of a man, for at that age he gains a new awareness of the meaning of time.

Kirillov, as a truly absurd character, is a major subject of deliberation in Camus ' philosophical essay The Myth of Sisyphus.

Additionally, he further illustrates the human reaction towards the " absurd "; The Plague represents how the world deals with the philosophical notion of the Absurd, a theory which Camus himself helped to define.

In the essay, Camus introduces his philosophy of the absurd: man's futile search for meaning, unity, and clarity in the face of an unintelligible world devoid of God and eternal truths or values.

For Camus, who set out to take the absurd seriously and follow it to its final conclusions, these " leaps " cannot convince.

Thus, Camus arrives at three consequences from the full acknowledging of the absurd: revolt, freedom and passion.

Camus then goes on to present examples of the absurd life.

Camus ' third example of the absurd man is the conqueror, the warrior who forgoes all promises of eternity to affect and engage fully in human history.

Here Camus explores the absurd creator or artist.

While Camus acknowledges that Kafka's work represents an exquisite description of the absurd condition, he maintains that Kafka fails as an absurd writer because his work retains a glimmer of hope.

Camus states that it does not counter the Absurd, but only becomes more absurd, to end one's own existence.

Described by Camus as " absurd ", this latter perception must be examined with what Camus terms " lucidity.

" Camus concludes that the absurd sensibility contradicts itself because when it claims to believe in nothing, it believes in its own protest and the value of the protester's life.

Many of the literary works of Søren Kierkegaard, Franz Kafka, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Albert Camus contain descriptions of people who encounter the absurdity of the world.

Sartre was a very active contributor to Combat, a newspaper created during the clandestine period by Albert Camus, a philosopher and author who held similar beliefs.

According to Camus, Sartre was a writer who resisted, not a resister who wrote.

Albert Camus presents the world as meaningless, therefore, its meaning is rendered by oneself ; it is the individual person who gives meaning to a circumstance.

With protagonists who asserted their independence from the fated past, themes during this period are more closely related to the existential concerns of such writers as Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus.

The management structure of Lagardère reflects its status as a Société en commandite par actions ( partnership limited by shares ): the firm is led by general and managing partner Arnaud Lagardère who heads an executive committee comprising four co-managing partners ( Philippe Camus, Pierre Leroy, Dominique D ' Hinnin and Thierry Funck-Brentano ) and spokesperson and chief of external relations Ramzi Khiroun.

Angry, Clamence exits his vehicle in order to confront the man when someone else intervenes and " informed me that I was the scum of the earth and that he would not allow me to strike a man who had a motor-cycle between his legs and hence was at a disadvantage " ( Camus 303-4 ).

Clamence attempts to justify his possession of the stolen painting in a number of ways, primarily " because those judges are on their way to meet the Lamb, because there is no lamb or innocence any longer, and because the clever rascal who stole the panel was an instrument of the unknown justice that one ought not to thwart " ( Camus 346 ).

Arresting the five commissioners of the National Convention who had been sent to inquire into his conduct ( Camus, Drouet, Bancal-des-Issarts, Quinette, and Lamarque ) as well as the Minister of War, Pierre Riel de Beurnonville, he handed them over to the enemy, and then attempted to persuade his troops to march on Paris and overthrow the revolutionary government.

In Camus ' anti-suicide treatise, Don Juan is one of three ' Absurd Men ', ' heroes ' who overcome life with their attitude.

He also co-founded with writers Albert Camus and André Gide the support committee for Garry Davis, an American who tore apart his passport before the US embassy in a gesture of protest against nationalism.

A third is that of crime, as Camus discusses how rebels who get carried away lose touch with the original basis of their rebellion and offer various defenses of crime through various historical epochs.

", in that Camus speaks of the social context of art, concluding that " the only justification the artist ... is to speak up for those ... who cannot do so.

After Jean-Pierre Camus and Arnauld, Pascal attacked the Jesuit Antoine Sirmond, who had practically admitted the identity between natural virtues and Christian virtues.

Sartre, Camus, Malraux and Simone de Beauvoir ( who is also famous as one of the forerunners of Feminist writing ) are often called " existentialist writers ", a reference to Sartre's philosophy of Existentialism ( although Camus refused the title " existentialist ").