Penguin Classics

The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus: Summary, Analysis & Meaning

Albert Camus's 1942 essay confronts the only question philosophy cannot avoid: is life worth living in a universe without meaning? Through the Greek myth of Sisyphus — condemned to push a boulder uphill for eternity - Camus builds his philosophy of the absurd and arrives at an answer that is neither comforting nor despairing. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

Albert Camus's The Myth of Sisyphus, Penguin Classics edition, open on a rocky mountainside with a boulder in the background