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    <body><![CDATA[Most of my friends will probably think I'm being sarcastic when I call this as good a &quot;self-help&quot; book as any I can imagine, but this essay honestly inspired in me an awe of human nature and its absurd indomitability. I think Camus gets a bad rap for being a cold, detached pessimist who on...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22881202">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Indonesian edition of <em>Le mythe de Sisyphe</em>, translated by Apsanti Djokosujatno.<br/><br/>Bagi Camus, kesadaran akan kekacauan diri menyebabkan manusia menjadi tragis, tetapi tidak murung. Itulah asal-usul ungkapan mashur: &quot;Haruslah dibayangkan Sisifus bahagia! Biarpun langit menghukum manusia untuk menggelindingkan batu, hukuman ilahi itu justru membuktikan bahwa dengan mencuri sesuatu dari para dewa, manusia telah menyelamatkan diri mereka. Haruslah dibayangkan Sisifus bangga! Manusia Absurd ternyata adalah manusia dengan kebebasan mutlak.&quot;<br/>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Kiri&quot; adalah kebutuhan tak tercegah. Itu kritik filsuf Jean Paul Sartre atas sastrawan Albert Camus. Pada tahun 1952 hampir semua media di Perancis menyoroti perdebatan antara Camus dan Sartre soal komunisme setelah Camus menerbitkan buku <em>L'homme Revolte</em> setahun sebelumnya. Buku ini bisa ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6030008">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[ada yang saya sukai dari buku ini tersebar di beberapa topik don yuanisme, penaklukan, kirilov, dan sandiwara. namun yang akan saya kutip satu saja.<br/><br/><em>&quot;selalu tiba saatnya kita harus memilih antara renungan dan tindakan. begitulah hakikatnya menjadi manusia. kepedihan2 itu mengerikan. ...</em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38503326">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[There was a part of me that really, really, really wanted to give this book 4 stars because of the way it made me think about life and consider and reconsider my own notions about the meaning we make in our worlds. It contained some really interested ideas regarding the philosophy of absurdism, whic...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10570887">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[In this philosophical essay, Camus presents and defends his philosophical school of thought entitled the philosophy of the absurd.<br/><br/>The philosophy of the absurd asks about man's futile search for meaning in a world which it devoid of eternity. He presupposes the question: Does the realizat...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1725684">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[just goes to show, hope itself is useless and irresponsible. one creates beauty. it cannot be &quot;arrived at.&quot;]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This essay is one I have visited more times than I'd like to admit. The Myth of Sisyphus sets the structural foundation for the absurdist perceptions and views of literary works that place emphasis on these similar themes. The Myth of Sisyphus depicts the absurd by challenging the moral standards by...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50833146">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This thesis on existentialism is written in a form that I found hard to assimilate.  Camus wades through his philosophy with colloquial writing style and anecdotal reasoning, rather that a structured analysis with proofs and objectivity.  In spite of these shortcomings, his use and interpretation of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62522622">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[As a person who has suffered with the transitory feelings of depersonalization and existential malaise that Camus focused on in this book, I was very excited and hopeful that I would gain some insight and possibly find a path to meaning (stupid monkey, still seeking) elucidated in his essay. Instead...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66447283">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[In one way, at least, &quot;The Myth of Sisyphys&quot; is not an honest inquiry into the question of meaning.  Camus dismisses, a priori, any possible supernatural source of meaning, which leaves him with only absurdity.  But then he despairs because of the meaningless and absurdity of life.  Well, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46449348">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm only giving this book three stars, because I found much of the main essay to be incoherent. Yet what I did understand resonated so much that if I'd read it in my early 20s or late teens, I would now call it one of the most influential books I've ever read. Since I read it just now, I can't say t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65268493">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[	This is one of the most influential books of the twentieth century.  In it Albert Camus, one of the two (with Jean-Paul Sartre) leading “French existentialists,” faces the problem of suicide: an act that seems to make philosophical sense in a world in which one is born accidentally and suffers ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63487128">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Me lo acaban de recomendar, lo acabo de comprar. A ver qué tal está, ay que soy muy estúpida, bujú.<br/><br/>Pinches imbéciles incompetentes.<br/><br/>(lo escribí enojada esto, pero me rehúso a quitarlo, se oye bien, no? Violento... muchachos, no lean a mandeville, saca lo pioooor de uste...]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a required college read.  Specifically, the Myth of Sisyphus is a commentary on life and I have to admit that I have thought about it constantly throughout my adult life as I add experience with aging and frustration.  Much of this connection I get with the Myth is due to an almost unrealis...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69070577">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a required college read.  Specifically, the Myth of Sisyphus is a commentary on life and I have to admit that I have thought about it constantly throughout my adult life as I add experience with aging and frustration.  Much of this connection I get with the Myth is due to an almost unrealis...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60762864">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[ The Myth of Sisyphus is a philosophical essay by Albert Camus. It comprises about 120 pages &amp; was published originally in '42 in French as Le Mythe de Sisyphe. An English translation by Justin O'Brien followed in '55.<br/> In the essay, Camus introduces his philosophy of the absurd: our futile search for meaning, unity &amp; clarity in the face of an unintelligible world devoid of god &amp; eternity. Does the realization of the absurd require suicide? He answers: &quot;No. It requires revolt.&quot; He then outlines several approaches to the absurd life. The final chapter compares the absurdity of life with the situation of Sisyphus, a figure of Greek mythology who was condemned to repeat forever the same meaningless task of pushing a rock up a mountain, only to see it roll down again. The essay concludes, &quot;The struggle itself...is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.&quot;<br/> The work should be seen in relation to other works by Camus: the novel The Stranger ('42), the play Caligula ('45), &amp; especially the essay The Rebel ('51) which was completed prior to his death in '60 in a car accident.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Classic for a reason. This book is a tonic for any agnostic or cynic struggling with the whole meaning-of-life thing. Camus, in a way that I find totally satisfying, solves that problem without the standard religious cop-out of locating meaning outside this world. <br/>What is wrong with being Sisy...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52130182">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Life-changing, at least if you're reading it the summer before sophomore year of college and in the midst of seriously thinking about death for the first time in your life. And me.]]></body>
    
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