/lit/ - Literature

>>22495883
>There is a good reason for his punishment and he has all the memories about when he fought the gods (im sure knowing that if he failed he would be punished) There is reason.
My Lord in Heaven grant me the patience to deal with these proddie idiots.
The metaphor doesn't stand on comparison to the Absurd itself, but to the solution to our problem. The Absurd is purely, apodictically true. It is not that our life is pointless. Even if I convince you 100% right now that life had meaning, if you understood Camus correctly, you would still have to admit that the Absurd is true. It is that we never get true proof of the meaning of our lives and actions and their timelessness *while we are beings that by essence requires it*, that is Absurd.
The a godless materialistic universe would give rise to beings that by nature demanded of it to be more than a godless materialistic universe, OR that a well intended God would create creatures destined to serve him and find their wellbeing in this service while having an ego that naturally leads them to rebel, those two things are equally Absurd.
Yet one of those is the truth (the second).
The entire point of the metaphor is to offer us a means of escaping the feeling of hopelessness that can wash over us when/if we contemplate this. Sisyphus could see no point in his pushing the rock, it had no value to him, it is eternal, he's not getting closer to the end. So, if we impose on ourselves the task of imagining him happy, how could we do this? By imagining him taking pride in reaching the peak of his labour, however meaningless it may be.
It is a moral/existential imperative to imagine Sisyphus happy, because it is how we can dig ourselves out of the hole in one of those moments. Of course this may sound very trite and personal and have no application to your life because you are not the type of person who get these sort of existential dread moments, but Camus was, and the MoS is very clearly a book about a subject emotionally heavy to Camus, you don't need to read about his life to feel it, you can get it from the text itself, but if you do read about his life the context is really fucking clear.

>>20325210
He quite literally told her he'd keep on sleeping with other women throughout their marriage and there was nothing she could do about it, and still harassed him until he finally caved and married.
Not only that, but when she tried to kill herself a lot of folks had the impression it was actually him trying to murder her, and she didn't do anything to dispel that notion, and Camus told her that he was starting to believe she had done that intentionally, and that it was the end of them. That was very shortly before he had his own fatal car accident.
Suicide, sure...

>>19965740
Camus would still find peace in the fact that he has the pack of cigarettes, or the memory of the pack of cigarettes once it is done.
>>19965649
I mean, it isn't like he published entire libraries of works. 5 novels, 6 plays, little less than a dozen essays. His philosophical ideas are reduced to absolute memes here, and that is perhaps because we never got to see him reach his philosophical maturity. We know he excelled under some of the better philosophy teachers of this century, but even his more philosophical essays are not truly "philosophy" books (not that I think this is a lack in them).
It really would have been kino to see him and Merleau-Ponty live longer, become friends through their common disdain for Sartre, and collaborate on phenomenological works.

>>18822989
> More handsome
> Quadruple digits number of qt french girls plowed
> Received Nobel prize nearly a decade before Sartre, didn't bitch about accepting it, just used the occasion to plow more qts.
> Better education, more committed to it, he nearly fucking died and still worked himself through his philosophical certificate.
> Lol Nope'd de Beauvoir
> No need to take cocaine to write autistic phenomenological works that completely disregard Husserl's method anyways, cigs are good enough.
> Told Sartre to stfu about commie politics

>>18141162
>shitty philosophy
Camus, Merleau-Ponty, Emmanuel Mounier, Michel Henry and Jean-Luc Marion are the only good French philosophers of that entire century.

>>17913390
>he didn't nothing to solve "the absurd desert problem"
>he didn't nothing to solve
>didn't nothing
He found happiness, that is literally the only thing one can do, now seethe more you retard.

>>17884990

One must imagine hatefucking Ramona happy.

>>17843505
Depends.
If the car crash was an accident, no.
If it wasn't, then yes.
And only if you include his drive to Casares into his body of works, which some people wouldn't.
>>17843495
>YOU WILL TAKE THE VACCINE
>YOU WILL BE WEARING A MASK
>AND YOU'RE GOING TO LIKE IT
Tu as oublié tes meds ce matin, OPÉ.

>>17811811

The book took me a little less of an hour to read.
I didn't get much out of it because I'm not suicidal (anymore), but if I had read it at the right moment, it would have saved me a fuckload of trouble.
From a strictly philosophical point-of-view, there isn't much there to be extracted, but again, it is a very short book. You aren't investing any significant amount of time into it.
It's a philosophical essay, but about a very personal question for Camus. If you don't relate to it then you will likely get filtered by it.
> We must imagine Camus happy, and not the good-looking and socially functional low-grade manic depressive autist that he was.

>>17717444

True, and checked.