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  1. Sep 23, 2024 · Jean-Baptiste Clamence, embodying John the Baptist's voice in the wilderness, stands central to the narrative. Background characters include an anonymous woman who leaped into the Seine,...

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      Albert Camus’s death in 1960, at the early age of forty-six,...

  2. Sep 26, 2024 · The Myth of Sisyphus, philosophical essay by Albert Camus, published in French in 1942 as Le Mythe de Sisyphe. Published in the same year as Camus’s novel L’Étranger (The Stranger), The Myth of Sisyphus contains a sympathetic analysis of contemporary nihilism and touches on the nature of the absurd. Together the two works established his ...

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  3. 3 days ago · Camus identifies three characteristics of the absurd life: revolt (we must not accept any answer or reconciliation in our struggle), freedom (we are absolutely free to think and behave as we choose), and passion (we must pursue a life of rich and diverse experiences).

  4. Sep 28, 2024 · Rambert, the journalist who finds himself trapped in Oran by chance, is separated by the irony of fate from the woman he loves, echoing Camus's own separation from his wife during the war.

  5. Sep 21, 2024 · Albert Camus — ‘A world that can be explained even with bad reasons is a familiar world. But, on the other hand, in a universe suddenly divested of illus...

  6. Oct 4, 2024 · Theatre of the Absurd, dramatic work of certain European and American dramatists of the 1950s and early ’60s who agreed with the Existentialist philosopher Albert Camus’s assessment, in his essay ‘The Myth of Sisyphus,’ that the human situation is essentially absurd, devoid of purpose.

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  8. Sep 23, 2024 · Critical analysis of Camus’ major works, from a philosophical perspective. A chapter on The Fall examines the work as a study of modern anxiety and compares it to other novels by the author ...