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This essay on the absurd became an important philosophical-existential contribution and exerted 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. Camus highlights a world immersed in irrationalities and recalls Sisyphus, condemned by the gods to endlessly push a stone up the mountain, only to have it fall back down, characterizing his work as futile and hopeless. The author paints a portrait of the emptiness in which we live and the dilemma faced by contemporary humanity: "Either we are not free and the one responsible for evil is Almighty God, or we are free and responsible, but God is not Almighty."
This paperback edition includes a foreword by journalist Manuel da Costa Pinto, author of Albert Camus - In Praise of the Essay, organizer and translator of the anthology Intelligence and the Scaffold and Other Essays, by Albert Camus.
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