‘If I wish to limit myself to facts,’ Camus writes in The Myth of Sisyphus, ‘I know what man wants, I know what the world offers him, and now I can say that I also know what links them. I have no need to dig deeper.’ This misfit, that is the only fit there is between ‘man’ and his world, between what he wants and what is on offer, is what Camus calls, a little distractingly, the ‘Absurd’.
