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"The Camus Collection" includes Camus' three masterpieces: "The Plague", "The Stranger" and "The Myth of Sisyphus". Among them, "The Myth of Sisyphus" is a philosophical essay, which is Camus' in-depth and concentrated investigation and thorough and clear explanation of the philosophy of absurdity. The book is divided into three parts. The first part, "The Myth of Sisyphus," is divided into three aspects: absurd reasoning, absurd people, and absurd creation. The author conducts in-depth philosophical discussions on philosophical issues such as absurdity and suicide. "The Myth of Sisyphus" is not only a triumphant song of liberal humanism, it constitutes a style that is both pathos and sublime.

"The Plague" takes place in Oran, a small city in North Africa. It is an ordinary and peaceful city. However, the arrival of the plague broke this calm. One night in April, Dr. Rieux was walking out of the clinic when he stumbled over a dead rat. He didn't pay much attention at first. A few days later, tens of thousands of rats died en masse, and the drains were filled with dead rats. A wave of panic swept through the city. Immediately afterwards, Rieux discovered the first patient, who had symptoms such as vomiting, high fever, and swollen lymph nodes. He realized that this could be a highly lethal infectious disease. However, city officials deliberately concealed the epidemic in order to protect their power. Soon, the epidemic spread rapidly, and the government finally issued a plague warning and the city was locked down. This city has completely become an island. In Camus's works, in the face of crisis, different characters made completely different choices, but ordinary people led by Rieux always fought against the plague in their own way.

"SARS" in 2002, "COVID-19" in 2020... Whenever a disaster strikes, "Plague" will always be an explosive hit. Because people can always marvel at Camus's amazing foresight when reading "The Plague". Whether it is the social fragmentation caused by everyone's self-protection, the chaos and anxiety caused by rumors, the consideration and impact of strict control on humanity, or the alarming regression of globalization caused by the need for security exceeding the need for development, they are all accurately represented and traced back to their roots in Camus's masterpiece "The Plague". This makes the book a must-read for people experiencing disaster. When the book came out, it was called a landmark work of the times, and won Camus the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957.

"The Myth of Sisyphus" is the core work of Camus' "Philosophy of the Absurd". It uses the endless absurd fate of Sisyphus pushing the stone up the mountain in the Greek myth as a metaphor to explore "how people can fight against absurdity and live out their values ​​in a meaningless world."

Mersault, a clerk in the company, does boring work day after day and leads an unchanging life. He is lonely, nihilistic, and has no interest in the whole world. After orchestrating a murder, he gained vast wealth and was able to escape his eight-hour day job, becoming rich and free. Start traveling and traveling around... Can you be happy if you have money? Can you be happy if you have time? Can you be happy with a lover and love? How can we truly feel self-satisfaction and happiness? Mersault kept thinking about these issues during his journey and explored the joy of living... "A Happy Death" is the debut novel written by Nobel Prize winner Camus at the age of 24. Camus used his own real experience and "absurdity" experience as material to create the protagonist Mersault, which was his initial exploration of the meaning of life. The origin and answer of the questions that Camus has been thinking about throughout his life can be found in "The Happy Death"!

"The Outsider" is divided into two parts. Part of the story begins with the death of Meursault's mother and ends with him killing the Arabs on the beach. There seems to be no necessary connection between successive events, dialogues, gestures and feelings, giving people a sense of incoherence and absurdity. In the second part, social consciousness replaces Meursault's spontaneous consciousness. The judicial institution, with its inherent logic, described Meursault, who always believed that he was innocent and didn't care about anything, as a ruthless devil who deliberately killed people.

"The Stranger" is the starting point of Camus's thoughts. It is written in the form of a autobiography by Meursault, an employee of a shipping company in Algiers. The novel shocked the reading world with its concise and almost dry writing style and its calm and almost indifferent tone. "The Myth of Sisyphus" demonstrates the basic idea of ​​"The Stranger" in philosophical language. Camus discusses the "Philosophy of the Absurd" in his book, which is a complete philosophical system from awakening to action.