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The essay concludes, "The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy." The work can be seen in relation to other absurdist works by Camus: the novel The Stranger (1942), the plays The Misunderstanding (1942) and Caligula (1944), and especially the essay The Rebel (1951).
Sisyphus was the founder and first king of Ephyra (supposedly the original name of Corinth). [8] According to Pausanias, Sisyphus, as king, founded the Isthmian games in honour of Melicertes, whose dead body was found washed up along the Isthmus of Corinth, having been carried to shore by a dolphin. [13]
He also said his work, The Myth of Sisyphus, was a criticism of various aspects of existentialism. [86] Camus rejected existentialism as a philosophy, but his critique was mostly focused on Sartrean existentialism and – though to a lesser extent – on religious existentialism.
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The Sisyphus (/ ˈ s ɪ s ɪ f ə s /; Greek: Σίσυφος) is purported to be one of the dialogues of Plato. The dialogue is extant and was included in the Stephanus edition published in Geneva in 1578. It is now generally acknowledged to be spurious. The work probably dates from the fourth century BCE, and the author was presumably a pupil ...
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Pope Francis said the story of Jesus' birth as a poor carpenter's son should instil hope that all people can make an impact on the world, as the pontiff on Tuesday led the ...
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Camus imagined Sisyphus while pushing the rock, realizing the futility of his task, but doing it anyway out of rebellion: "One must imagine Sisyphus happy." [ 95 ] : 123 Peter Wessel Zapffe