Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays, The [German]

by Albert Caumus

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: German
• ISBN: B000GS5VL4
• Release Date: January 1955
• Publisher: Vintage Books
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A clueless artist's thoughts

As an artist, I often feel that creating things is pointless. There's a certain dread that comes along with creation, like you're wasting your time. I sort of relate that feeling to Camus' notion of humiliated thought. Anyway, this book, I think, teaches you to wield that very pointlessness to create a mark in time, while it passes through us slow and jagged. Art gives you the ability to express "intellectual drama," and through that we can create meaning despite certain pointlessness. I think that even art is a symptom of felt pointlessness, not a cure. I think this book just says that you can choose your symptom, and that ability to choose grounds us in a landscape most confusing.