The myth of Sisyphus

Name: The myth of Sisyphus
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Autor: Albert Camus

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From one of the most important and representative authors of the 20th century and Nobel Prize winner for Literature, The Myth of Sisyphus brings essays on the absurd and the irrational, becoming an important philosophical-existential contribution that exerts a profound influence on an entire generation.

Albert Camus, one of the most influential writers and intellectuals of the 20th century, published *The Myth of Sisyphus* in 1942. This essay on the absurd became an important philosophical-existential contribution and profoundly influenced an entire generation. Camus highlights the world immersed in irrationalities and recalls Sisyphus, condemned by the gods to endlessly push a boulder up the mountain, only to have it fall back down, characterizing his work as futile and hopeless.

The author paints a portrait of the world we live in and the dilemma faced by contemporary humanity: "Either we are not free and the one responsible for evil is God Almighty, or we are free and responsible, but God is not all-powerful." When Camus published *The Myth of Sisyphus * in 1942, in the midst of World War II, the world seemed truly absurd. The war, the occupation of France, the apparent triumph of violence and injustice—all of it brutally and completely contradicted the idea of a rational universe. The gods who condemned Sisyphus to endlessly push a stone up the mountain, only to have it fall back down, characterized a futile and hopeless labor that could express the contemporary situation.

Camus states in The Myth of Sisyphus that "there have always been men to defend the rights of the irrational." The current era sees the rebirth of paradoxical systems that strive to undermine reason. Individual terrorism succeeds state terrorism, and vice versa.

“In The Myth of Sisyphus , Camus formulated ideas about the gratuitousness of existence, the confrontation between the opacity of things and our 'appetite for clarity', about the 'divorce between man and his life, between the actor and his stage'.” – Manuel da Costa Pinto.

ISBN	978-850-111-164-7
Tradutor	Ari Roitman, Paulina Watch
Altura	205 mm
Largura	135 mm
Profundidade	7 mm
Lançamento	11/01/2018
Páginas	160

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Albert Camus

Albert Camus foi um jornalista, filósofo e escritor francês nascido na Argélia, em 1913. Seus trabalhos contribuíram com o crescimento da corrente de pensamento conhecida como absurdismo. Um dos grandes autores do século XX, recebeu o Prêmio Nobel de Literatura em 1957, três anos antes de sua morte. Entre suas maiores obras estão O estrangeiro, A peste e A queda.

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