4.1
El Mito de Sisifo
by Albert Camus
En este ensayo, Camus elabora una profunda reflexion sobre la condicion humana, y sugiere una etica del absurdo: el hombre cuya existencia esta desprovista de trascendencia, halla un sentido en el ejercicio pleno de la lucidez y en la asercion consciente de todos sus actos.
Literary CriticismAncient & ClassicalPhilosophy
RELEASED2006
PUBLISHERLosada
LENGTH165
LANGUAGEES
Albert Camus was a French Algerian author, philosopher, and journalist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. He was a key philosopher of the 20th-century and his most famous work is the novel *L'Étranger* (*The Stranger*). In 1949, Camus founded the Group for International Liaisons within the Revolutionary Union Movement, which was a group opposed to some tendencies of the surrealistic movement of André Breton. Camus was the second-youngest recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature - after Rudyard Kipling - when he became the first African-born writer to receive the award. He is the shortest-lived of any literature laureate to date, having died in an automobile accident just over two years after receiving the award. He is often cited as a proponent of existentialism, the philosophy that he was associated with during his own lifetime, but Camus himself rejected this particular label. In an interview in 1945, Camus rejected any ideological associations: "No, I am not an existentialist. Sartre and I are always surprised to see our names linked…"
4.1
El Mito de Sisifo
by Albert Camus
En este ensayo, Camus elabora una profunda reflexion sobre la condicion humana, y sugiere una etica del absurdo: el hombre cuya existencia esta desprovista de trascendencia, halla un sentido en el ejercicio pleno de la lucidez y en la asercion consciente de todos sus actos.
Literary CriticismAncient & ClassicalPhilosophy
RELEASED2006
PUBLISHERLosada
LENGTH165
LANGUAGEES
Albert Camus was a French Algerian author, philosopher, and journalist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. He was a key philosopher of the 20th-century and his most famous work is the novel *L'Étranger* (*The Stranger*). In 1949, Camus founded the Group for International Liaisons within the Revolutionary Union Movement, which was a group opposed to some tendencies of the surrealistic movement of André Breton. Camus was the second-youngest recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature - after Rudyard Kipling - when he became the first African-born writer to receive the award. He is the shortest-lived of any literature laureate to date, having died in an automobile accident just over two years after receiving the award. He is often cited as a proponent of existentialism, the philosophy that he was associated with during his own lifetime, but Camus himself rejected this particular label. In an interview in 1945, Camus rejected any ideological associations: "No, I am not an existentialist. Sartre and I are always surprised to see our names linked…"
