CAMUS, Albert.

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The Myth of Sisyphus. First edition in English, including a new preface by Camus and collecting the title essay alongside "Summer in Algiers", "The Minotaur, or The Stop in Oran", "Helen's Exile", "Return to Tipasa", and "The Artist and His Time". Camus's absurdist treatise on the philosophical problem of suicide was first published as Le Mythe de Sisyphe in 1942.Addressing his English readers, Camus comments that, "written fifteen years ago, in 1940, amidst 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... This book is in a certain sense the most personal of those I have published in English". It acts as a non-fictional companion to his novel L'Étranger (1942). The translator, Justin O'Brien (1906-1968), was a professor of French at Columbia University who translated many works by Camus and certain works by Jean-Paul Sartre and André Gide, including Gide's collected journals.

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