Review of 'The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
I've heard the echo of an age when a person cannot conciliate with God/gods anymore. No amount of metaphysics or theology won't help. No afterlife, and not even apparent justice is available. An uncompromising nihilism will strike:
At any streetcorner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face. As it is, in its distressing nudity, in its light without effulgence, it is elusive.
It is also an age of disenchantment from nationalism and other authoritarian ideas, and of western civilization as a whole. These are the themes found in the later part of the books.
The main theme- the absurdism and the implications accompanying it, was discussed at length rhetorically, with a healthy amount of aphorism. Camus, I think in the point of absurdity will agree with Buddha. However, unlike Buddha's detachment, Camus prescribed proliferation of joy and defiance of fate.
I've heard the echo of an age when a person cannot conciliate with God/gods anymore. No amount of metaphysics or theology won't help. No afterlife, and not even apparent justice is available. An uncompromising nihilism will strike:
At any streetcorner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face. As it is, in its distressing nudity, in its light without effulgence, it is elusive.
It is also an age of disenchantment from nationalism and other authoritarian ideas, and of western civilization as a whole. These are the themes found in the later part of the books.
The main theme- the absurdism and the implications accompanying it, was discussed at length rhetorically, with a healthy amount of aphorism. Camus, I think in the point of absurdity will agree with Buddha. However, unlike Buddha's detachment, Camus prescribed proliferation of joy and defiance of fate.
