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Through themes such as absurd reasoning, the relation between absurdity and suicide, the “absurd walk,” and the figure of the “absurd man,” the work argues that even without belief in God, suicide is not legitimate. The volume also gathers companion essays on art, creation, freedom, and related literary reflections, including discussions connected to Kafka and other figures.","The Myth Of Sisyphus And Other Essays  \nAlbert Camus  \nTranslated from the French by Justin O’Brien  \nContents  \nPreface  \nThe Myth Of Sisyphus An Absurd Reasoning  \nAbsurdity and Suicide  \nAbsurd Walk  \nPhilosophical Suicide  \nAbsurd Freedom The Absurd Man  \nDon Juanism  \nDrama  \nConquest Absurd Creation  \nPhilosophy and Fiction  \nKirilov  \nEphemeral Creation The Myth Of Sisyphus  \nAppendix: Hope and the Absurd in the Work of Franz Kafka  \nSummer In Algiers  \nThe Minotaur or The Stop In Oran  \nThe Street  \nThe Desert in Oran  \nSports  \nMonuments  \nAriadne’s Stone  \nHelen’s Exile  \nReturn To Tipasa The Artist And His Time  \nPreface  \nFor me “The Myth of Sisyphus”marks the beginning of an idea which I was to pursue in The Rebel. It attempts to resolve the problem of suicide, as The Rebel attempts to resolve that of murder, in both cases without the aid of eternal values which, temporarily perhaps, are absent or distorted in contemporary Europe. The fundamental subject of “The Myth of Sisyphus” is this: it is legitimate and necessary to wonder whether life has a meaning; therefore it is legitimate to meet the problem of suicide  \nface to face. The answer, underlying and appearing through the paradoxes which cover it, is this: even if one does not believe in God, suicide is not legitimate. Written fifteen years ago, in 1940, amid the French and European disaster, this book declares that even within the limits of nihilism it is possible to find the means to proceed beyond nihilism. In all the books I have written since, I have attempted to pursue this direction. Although “The Myth of Sisyphus” poses mortal problems, it sums itself up for me as a lucid invitation to live and to create, in the very midst of the desert.  \nIt has hence been thought possible to append to this philosophical argument a series of essays, of a kind I have never ceased writing, which are somewhat marginal to my other books. In a more lyrical form, they all illustrate that essential fluctuation from assent to refusal which, in my view, defines the artist and his difficult calling. The unity of this book, that I should like to be apparent to American readers as it is to me, resides in the reflection, alternately cold and impassioned, in which an artist may indulge as to his reasons for living and for creating. After fifteen years I have progressed beyond several of the positions which are set down here; but I have remained faithful, it seems tome, to the exigency which prompted them. That is why this hook isin a certain sense the most personal of those I have published in America. More than the others, therefore, it has need of the indulgence and understanding of its readers.  \n—Albert Camus, Paris, March 1955  \nfor PASCAL PIA  \nO my soul, do not aspire to immortal life, but exhaust the limits of the possible.  \n—Pindar, Pythian iii  \nThe pages that follow deal with an absurd sensitivity that can be found widespread in the age—and not with an absurd philosophy which our time, properly speaking, has not known. It is therefore simply fair to point out, at the outset, what these pages owe to certain contemporary thinkers. It is so far from my intention to hide this that they Will be found cited and commented upon throughout this work.  \nBut it is useful to note at the same time that the absurd, hitherto taken as a conclusion, is considered in this essay as a startingpoint. In this sense it may be said that there is something provisional in my commentary: one cannot prejudge the position it entails. There will be found here merely the description, in the pure state, of an intellectual malady. No metaphysic, no belief is involved in it for the moment. These are the limits and the only bias of this book. Certain personal experiences urge me to make this clear.  \nThe Myth Of Sisyphus An Absurd Reasoning  \nAbsurdity and Suicide  \nThere is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. 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