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Absurdism begins with the clash between our need for meaning and a silent universe that offers none. Camus rejected both despair and false consolations. Instead, he called for revolt. Clear eyed acceptance of the absurd, lived with full awareness and passion. Meaning is not foun. It is created, moment by moment, in the act of continuing. One must imagine Sisyphus happy..
No accomplishment is too small to share. Too often now it seems that with all the things we can observe around the world and the random talents people put on display that it can feel like we are incapable of achieving anything worthwhile. Furthermore, the things we work towards and struggle to achieve are quickly met with the next goal.
Big or small, the victories can only sustain a person so long before they are back down the hill and working that rock back up again. What felt over too soon before you had to get back to the grind?
Ever since I was young , I was interested by Camus’s work. I’ve read L’étranger and les justes a long time ago, and recently I wanted to read l’homme revolté. Since French is my second language , I found a hard time trying to understand what he was trying to convey. I decided to read mythe de sisyphe instead . And unfortunately , I did not understand that book either. Do you have any tips on what books should I read first before exploring camus’s works ?
And how would you define him in your life journey of dostovesky texts??
To look straight at the silence of the universe and refuse both despair and false comfort. Life has no pre written meaning and that is the absurd. Yet the response is not to give up. It is to revolt. To live intensely, create, love and keep searching precisely because nothing is Guaranteed..