Reviews - Myten om Sisyfos

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deeply annoying to me personally
one must imagine sisyphos happy- sure, appreciating the moment and living it to the fullest in its simplicity and absurdity is beautiful, but this is such a limited analogy and the philosophy taken to its extreme, as it is here is just selfish, lonely and boring. there is more to life than impulse, the exact moment present now and death as the absolute enemy of things.
what i wanna work on is the opposite- living life, as if there were a tomorrow. realising myself as an existing entity, that is now, and will be tomorrow, and can build safe roots into the present that reach into the future for myself and the people i share life with and care for. with that objective albert and i just dont fit together at this time, but i see how it is appealing in a phase of finding oneself and looking for redirection . i was just so immensely annoyed by his black and white thinking.

e_33's review against another edition

4.25

The only point is to live, the only destination death. No god, eternity, higher purpose, nor a “someday” to count on. But to encounter that during the conscious hour on the descent back to Sisyphus’ rock and in spite of that, live. Such is the lucid defiance against the absurd.

Still, I wonder. I wonder if the tragic albeit lucid happiness of Camus’ absurd hero is implicitly privileged. After all, pondering the meaning of life, confronting the indifference of this universe, and consciously choosing to embrace the unbearable weight of a radical freedom — isn’t that in itself a luxury? For the ordinary, those consumed by hunger, oppression, simply surviving, the pursuit of such a rebellious happiness is surely out of reach. Tragically, illusion remains the human refuge, and perhaps we ought to let man cling to something sometimes.

For now, I only know the happiness of finally finishing a book left half-read for well over a year. Maybe Camus, in quoting Nietzsche, is right— it’s these minute moments, art, this book, and the finishing of it, that makes it worth the trouble of living in this earth.

uhkay949's review against another edition

This book made English seem like a foreign language.

symm3try's review against another edition

Enjoyed the beginning but sort of lost the plot partway through. Will come back to it when I’m interested in thinking more deeply about the arguments.

tomasawyer's review against another edition

2.0

Désolé Albert mais ton écriture est désagréable à lire. Très embrouilleuse. Tu pourrais dire les choses beaucoup plus clairement. D'autres l'ont fait. D'ailleurs les meilleurs passages, c'est quand tu cites le texte original du mythe de Sisyphe. Oui, la vie est absurde, dénuée de sens véritable, il est vain d'espérer en trouver un. Certains sont anéantis par ce constat, d'autres choisissent de s'inventer un sens, par aveuglement ou consciemment pour la beauté du geste. Voilà, c'est sympa, je retourne voir le match de Rugby même si je sais que tout ça n'a aucun sens. Je préfère être vivant que ne pas l'être.