What We Are Reading Today: ‘The Myth of Sisyphus’

Author: Albert Camus Albert Camus’ “The Myth of Sisyphus” (1942) is a short philosophical essay that uses an ancient Greek story to ask a modern question: How should we live when life does not come with guaranteed meaning? Camus chooses the legend of Sisyphus, condemned to push a boulder up a mountain forever only to see it roll back down, as his central metaphor for human persistence in a world that does not offer final explanations.

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