The Kingdom of Absurdities: A Novel

The Kingdom of Absurdities is his first novel and An Anthology of Misfortune is his first collection of stories. You can also find new stories by him in Far Flung and.
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East Dane Designer Men's Fashion. Suicide, then, also must be rejected: The contradiction must be lived; reason and its limits must be acknowledged, without false hope. However, the absurd can never be accepted: While the question of human freedom in the metaphysical sense loses interest to the absurd man, he gains freedom in a very concrete sense: To embrace the absurd implies embracing all that the unreasonable world has to offer. Without a meaning in life, there is no scale of values. Thus, Camus arrives at three consequences from fully acknowledging the absurd: Camus then goes on to present examples of the absurd life.

He begins with Don Juan , the serial seducer who lives the passionate life to the fullest. The next example is the actor , who depicts ephemeral lives for ephemeral fame. Camus's third example of the absurd man is the conqueror, the warrior who forgoes all promises of eternity to affect and engage fully in human history.

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He chooses action over contemplation, aware of the fact that nothing can last and no victory is final. Here Camus explores the absurd creator or artist. Since explanation is impossible, absurd art is restricted to a description of the myriad experiences in the world. All these works start from the absurd position, and the first two explore the theme of philosophical suicide. However, both The Diary and his last novel, The Brothers Karamazov , ultimately find a path to hope and faith and thus fail as truly absurd creations.

In the last chapter, Camus outlines the legend of Sisyphus who defied the gods and put Death in chains so that no human needed to die. When Death was eventually liberated and it came time for Sisyphus himself to die, he concocted a deceit which let him escape from the underworld. After finally capturing Sisyphus, the gods decided on his punishment for all eternity. He would have to push a rock up a mountain; upon reaching the top, the rock would roll down again, leaving Sisyphus to start over.

Camus sees Sisyphus as the absurd hero who lives life to the fullest, hates death, and is condemned to a meaningless task. Camus is interested in Sisyphus' thoughts when marching down the mountain, to start anew.

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After the stone falls back down the mountain Camus states that "It is during that return, that pause, that Sisyphus interests me. A face that toils so close to stones is already stone itself!