Welcome, friends! Here is a
link to a general summary of the myth of Sisyphus and
a link to Camus' version (or you can look to the right on this blog, farther down the page). In the same year that he published
The Stranger, Camus published the essay "Myth of Sisyphus," which i passed out in class last week. We can assume that the two were linked in Camus' creative process. As you consider this myth, consider the philosophical ramifications of being a stranger. If a person like Mersault can be the protagonist of a modernist novel, how then would you define him heroically? How has our idea of a hero changed? Did Camus redefine the hero, or at least the protagonist, in this book? I would like you to review Sisyphus' story and then discuss how the quote from the essay (below) may or may not apply to the modernist philosophy espoused in
The Stranger.
"It makes of fate a human matter, which must be settled among men."
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