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Description
Text: English (translation) Original Language: French
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First Sentence
THERE is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide.
Table of Contents
Preface
THE MYTH OF SISYPHUS:
Part I: The Absurd Reasoning
1. Absurdity and Suicide
2. Absurd Walls
3. Philosophical Suicide
4. Absurd Freedom
Part II: The Absurd Man
1. Don Juanism
2. Drama
3. Conquest
Part III: Absurd Creation
1. Philosophy and Fiction
2. Kirilov
3. Ephermal Creation
The Myth of Sisyphus
Appendix: Hope and the Absurd in the Work of Franz Kafka
OTHER ESSAYS:
Summer in Algiers
The Minotaur or The Stop in Oran
Helen's Exile
Return to Tipasa
The Artist and His Time
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