La vida como sinsentido. Breve lectura de El mito de Sísifo de Albert Camus

Abstract

This text tries to address Albert Camus’

absurdism following more closely the ideas of

Kierkegaard and Nietzsche rather than pursuing the

literary trend of the 20th century existentialist

authors. A brief introduction into Camus' biography

attempts to place the context where his work is

developed, publishing The myth of Sisyphus in

1942. The myth of Sisyphus is interpreted based on

anfaegtelse or übermensch concepts, and therefore

19th century existentialist philosophy highly based

on christianism is more present (from Kierkegaard

himself or Fiódor Dostoievski in his last years, both

mentioned, as well as Nietzsche, in Camus' essay),

and this philosophy is different in several aspects

from what would later be named existentialism.

Fear and trembling and Thus spoke Zarathustra are

used as main references to try to comprehend the

existential philosophy, and in this particular case,

the absurdism of Camus.