One of the most influential works of this century, this is a crucial exposition of existentialist thought. Influenced by works such as Don Juan and the novels of Kafka, these essays begin with a meditation on suicide: the question of living or not living in an absurd universe devoid of order or meaning.
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One of the most influential works of this century, this is a crucial exposition of existentialist thought. Influenced by works such as Don Juan and the novels of Kafka, these essays begin with a meditation on suicide: the question of living or not living in an absurd universe devoid of order or meaning.
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Fair in good dust jacket. Highlighting/underlining. Text in English, French. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. Audience: General/trade. Ships w signature cobfirmation. 1955 hc stated 1st American ed w dj protected in mylar. Edgewear (some tears closed), chipping, and soil/tanning on dj, light sunning on cover, owner's name (prominent editor Aaron Asher) on ffep, underlining on EVERY 1 of the 1st 123 pgs & again on some later ones, you can tell if you go into the spine that the owner was a smoker, light tanning, binding tight.
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Very Good. Size: 8x5x1; 1955 Knopf first American edition first printing in very lightly shelf worn price intact jacket. Previous owner's name inked to flyleaf and front endpapers show tone from newspaper clipping laid in. Tight binding text unmarked. B75 Please email for photos.
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Very good. The slightest of edge wear to jacket. Previous owner's bookplate on ffep. Remarkable condition, considering age. Open Books is a nonprofit social venture that provides literacy experiences for thousands of readers each year through inspiring programs and creative capitalization of books.
Camus says suicide is a choice made by those who have found life to be absurd. To Camus, the Absurd is the only thing one can mark as undeniably true; and since it is true, it must be perpetuated. One must live in revolt with the Absurd and without hope. Revolt increases awareness of the experience. On the other hand, suicide is a form of acceptance and only ends the experience with the Absurd. He compares this struggle to Sisyphus's punishment: doomed to push a rock up a hill to eternity. Sisyphus lives without hope but finds gratification in his task each time he returns to fetch the rolling rock.
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May 3, 2007
Tiresome effort to provide reasons for human existance and purpose if any...filled with out dated ideas current in the 1940's...no longer relavent in an era of deconstructed thought.