Library

"The Myth of Sisyphus" is a collection of essays by Camus, including "The Right and the Wrong", "The Wedding Collection", "The Myth of Sisyphus", and "The Rebel". "The Myth of Sisyphus" is one of Camus's masterpieces. The article collects Camus's most in-depth and thorough investigation and analysis of the philosophy of absurdity. "The Anti and the Right" consists of five essays, which record Camus' keen observations, personal feelings and philosophical thinking about daily life. The content is mostly based on the author's own life and family. "Wedding Collection" consists of four articles, recording the author's enjoyment of life in Algeria's natural scenery and cultural landscape. "The Rebel" is a theoretical masterpiece that comprehensively explains Camus's thoughts on resistance. In the book, Camus puts forward the assertion "I resist, therefore I am." The spirit and courage it embodies are enough to echo "The Myth of Sisyphus" and to draw a perfect end to Camus's life of "rising up against the absurd".

"The Stranger" is Camus' famous work, a masterpiece of existential literature, and a representative work of absurd novels. The novel tells the story of an ordinary young clerk who lives numbly in aimless inertia all day long. One day he went to the beach for vacation, got involved in a conflict, and committed a murder. Because "he did not shed a tear at his mother's funeral", he was sentenced to death by the court in the name of "the French people". The novel elaborates on an important proposition of existentialism: the absurdity and strangeness of human society in modern life lead to individual despair and nihilism. By calmly describing the entire process of a little person being "demonized" by the judicial authorities, it profoundly satirizes the hypocrisy and foolhardy nature of modern law.

Meursault is a small clerk in Algiers. He is very empty inside and indifferent to worldly affairs. He refuses to pretend about his feelings and is indifferent to the relationships between people. He even went swimming, dated, watched funny movies and laughed the day after his mother died. During a seaside vacation, Meursault got involved in a conflict and killed someone "because of the sunshine". In the end, he was hanged - not for the crime he committed, but because he did not accept the creeds and customs approved by the law: "he did not cry when his mother was buried." "The Outsider" uses calm and restrained language to tell the story of a man who lives outside the secular rules, critically examines the freedom and equality advertised by the society at that time, and explores the absurd and hypocritical society's complete obliteration of the value of human freedom.

"Collected Works of Camus 3: The Anti and the Right Wedding Summer Collection" is the third volume of the "Collected Works of Camus". The prose collection "The Anti and the Right" narrates childhood life; "The Wedding" and "Summer" express the love of life and the fear of death; the attached "Swedish Speech" is a speech delivered by the author after winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. Albert Camus (1913-1960), French novelist and dramatist, one of the representative writers of existentialism, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. Before the 1950s, Camus was always regarded as an existentialist, although he denied it many times. After Camus published his philosophical essay "The Rebel" in 1951, it triggered a year-long debate with Sartre and others, and finally broke with Sartre. Only then did people discover that Camus was a representative figure of the philosophy of the absurd and its literature.

"The Outsider: The Myth of Sisyphus" is the first volume of Camus's collected works translated by Guo Hongan. It includes the philosophical novel "The Outsider" and the collection of essays "The Myth of Sisyphus". "The Myth of Sisyphus the Outsider" focuses on Camus' absurd philosophy. He tried to tell people that having no hope is not the same as despair, and being awake does not lead to obedience. People should realize that their only wealth is life, and life is bound to disappear, but at the same time it can be developed as much as possible. People should and can gain the courage to survive in this world, and even happiness. The "absurdity" he proposed is "sober reason that confirms its own boundaries." He rejected eternity while affirming the beauty of the world and the joy of life.

Camus's mature work after winning the Nobel Prize deeply explores "spiritual exile" and "soul destination", and directly attacks the spiritual dilemma of modern people. Classic translation by Liu Senyao. Specially included is the translator's preface, which provides an in-depth explanation of the creative background and is a key to a deeper understanding of Camus's literary world and existential philosophical vision. This book was the last work published by Camus during his lifetime, and he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in the same year. This collection of short stories contains six stories set in Europe, Africa, and South America and vary in style from symbolic to realistic to interior monologue. Each story focuses on an exiled character who is struggling in the vastness of nothingness or a strange foreign land, searching for an outlet for freedom and life between reality and hope. Through six stories, this book depicts lonely lives in different situations: women trapped in formal marriages, workers frustrated by capitalists, lonely humanitarians, seemingly smooth artists, self-exiled engineers... Everyone deviates from the secular track, but finds some kind of self-belonging in the wrong path - even if that belonging is still not understood by ordinary people.