The Myth of Sisyphus & Other Essays by Albert Camus

Read the full post at - The Myth of Sisyphus & Other Essays by Albert Camus The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays by Albert Camus is one of those books I’ve read a couple of times and finally just decided to own. I picked up the Vintage Books edition specifically because it includes bonus essays — particularly “Summer in Algiers” — that I think represent some of Camus’s best work. What I Liked Coming back to this book about ten years after my last read, I was struck again by how rare it is to find a non-fiction essay that isn’t reporting on something, reacting to something, or trying to break news. The Myth of Sisyphus is just a pure, long-form argument about an idea — absurdism, the question of whether life has meaning, and why we keep pushing the boulder anyway. Camus uses the Greek myth as his vehicle, and it works brilliantly because it’s one of those allusions that floats around in the culture whether or not you’ve ever cracked open a mythology book. The bonus essays are what…