Book Review: The Myth of Sisyphus by, Albert Camus
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- In today's video I'll be reviewing The Myth of Sisyphus by, Albert Camus.
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Your recommendation to read Dostoevsky and Camus at the same time makes too much sense 🤯🤯 Great review! Now I can’t wait to reread Camus!
I think they compliment each other nicely!
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I need to read this. I was wondering what you meant by a challenging read, but after seeing those quotes, I understand. I love how you're not afraid to ramble or go off on tangents. I can relate.
Glad you enjoy the rambling lol! :)
My favorite book reviewer!
Thank you!
@alanaestelle2076 your welcome!
Really appreciate your viewpoints on this text.
My childhood best friend took his own life & in his last note, he said this person came to him in a dream on a different plane of existence that “welcomed him” and his decision so they could be together outside of this plane we live on.
I couldn’t come to terms with his decision until reading The Myth of Sisyphus.
I did wish he had found something to keep him here, but he always lived on his own terms; life wouldn’t chain him
Wow, thank you for sharing. It really is hard to come to terms with, but I agree, this text does help.
Stumbled on your channel and have been binge watching some of your vids. I like this one a lot. I had just read this book as well. The quotes your chose were really good, first picking ones that hi-light the problem (reductively: how does man find meaning in a world without meaning), then you quote some of the solutions he offers up (you brought up ones I hadn't picked up on as being profound when I read it, but watching your vid I was like oh I missed some of these. So thank you for that:)
I was reading a bit of Nietzsche (Beyond good and Evil) when I read this, he actually has a pretty good quote that I think fits into Camus' ideas presented in Myth of Sisyphus. Don't know if you like it, but it does a lot for me: "The though of suicide is a powerful solace: by means of it one gets through many a bad night."
Thank you! :) I haven't read a complete work of Nietzsche but he also has some really great quotes!
That's the type of books we wanted to hear about keep it existential young lady 🤘🏽
haha :)
@ Soren Kierkegaard my dude waiting for you to pull him up in the next bustop
Great review of a great work. I love how much it has effected you. I felt the same way when I first read it and I always revisit it when I can.
Now I'd suggest reading his play Caligula and the novella L'étranger because these three are grouped together in the cycle of the absurd and are examples of the philosophy examined in Sisypshe using fiction and theatre.
He a lot of organized his work in categories like this. A philosophical ideal examined in essay form and then expressed through prose fiction, and then through theatre.
La peste is a part of his next cycle, which is of Revolt, and is grouped with two other plays as well so I'd suggest reading those in tandem as well. That cycle, although very interesting and worth reading, but is still my least favorite. He died before he finished the third cycle, which is a shame because the concepts he was exploring are very interesting. My favorite book by him overall is La Chute which is a short novel, but also sort of a long monologue of a man's fall from grace.
Oh, and great pairing of Underground and Sisyphe. 😎😎If I ever create a book club I'd love to suggest these two.
Oooh thanks for all the recs and the reasoning be behind it! This is good to know!
First found your stuff when watching reviews of Nabokov's Lolita.
Now you've gone and done a review of another great work that I love... Perhaps we have similar tastes in literature
Appreciate this review. I gotta gear up to try and read this book in the new year.
Irishman here, living in USA. You're so American, so charmingly American. Loved your style and appreciated your substance.
@@brianonuanain7535 thank you so much!!
Three things - you’ve convinced me to pick up notes from the underground (I’ll put off a re-read of the idiot!); Le‘stranger is an incredible book, my first Camus; anyone who’s played Hades knows that Sisyphus is doing just fine with Boldy and a friend passing through his realm of “punishment/“bliss.
What a thoughtful and articulate analysis! To answer your question, Camus famously wrote, "I do not believe in god and I am not an atheist." I just don't think he had any kind of interest in divinity.
YES! That's the quote!! and thank you! :)
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"Interviewer: You once wrote: 'The secret of my universe: to imagine God without the immortality of the soul.' Can you make your thought more precise?
Camus: Yes. I have a sense of the sacred and do not believe in a future life. That is all."
Yes!! This quote!!
I started Crime and Punishment this morning, reading the plot outline in the introduction I was reminded a lot of The Stranger.
While reading Crime & Punishment for the first time, I thought I had already read it before(I had read The Stranger first)
Excellent review, I can't wait to hear your thoughts on East of Eden. I'm especially looking forward to hearing your thoughts on Gus and Woodrow from Lonesome Dove.
Thank you! I'm really excited to talk about East of Eden
The Stranger expresses the real Camus
Check out The Fall by Camus… it’s written in the same style of Dostoevsky’s Notes…
Oooh thanks for the rec!
Nice. I’m native too. Don’t often see native ladies doing such literature. ❤ Well, reservation culture is one thing; highbrow reading is something else, altogether.
My gene pool has a lot going on haha. I've always just loved reading :)
You should definitely read The Stranger next, it's his easiest read, it's a novel you can finish in hours.. I think we have similar tastes in existentialist themed content we consume lol.
I was told I have native American ancestry in my background but my mouth swab says that was a lie 😂😂. Found out I'm more European than African descent 🤦🏾♂️ lol
Hahahaha! genetics are funny.
Great review! I'm picking up my first Camus (The Stranger) later this week. I'm going to try it in the original French, so we'll see how that goes. 😆
Ooooooh fun that you get to try it in the French!!
@@alanaestelle2076 It's so hard!! 😭
I’m patiently waiting for your Patreon book club 📚🙏
Ooomph perhaps one day, when time allows :)
It’s the most important nonfiction book I’ve ever read. I was introduced to Camus’ work in my twenties by a charismatic woman teacher in college and read it not long afterwards. It is one of the few books I have read that means as much to me now as when I first read it and if I had to name one book that caused me to become a nonbeliever the Myth of Sisyphus would be it. Since The Stranger is the book that put the author on the world literary map maybe you should read it first though in many ways The Plague is actually a more hopeful book. Would also recommend his other major nonfiction work The Rebel in which he deals with the political consequences of acceptance of what he called “the absurd” and which caused a huge with other French writers.⚛❤
Oooh thanks for the recs!
Funny! I just finished it two days ago 😛 liked it
Hi Alana, great Camus review! He never wrote anything bad so Stranger/Plague next... makes no difference. Enjoy!
Haha good to know!
yt is insufferable with the censorship! There's been times my comments have been deleted and I have no idea what I even said wrong. I don't swear or make threats or do anything remotely like that. Aggravators!
It really is annoying. IG hides the most bizarre comments as well. It's ridiculous
Who gave you that Llama card? It always amuses me. Is it like a birthday card? I chuckle inside when I see it.
haha my sister!
@alanaestelle2076 😎👍🏼
Well you just re-interested me in a "Myth of Sisyphus" that I discarded long ago without thinking much of it, I should give it another look. The one that interested me by him was the novel "The Plague." As you say he did not reject the religious as well as having the "scientific" and agnostic positions in it and ultimately leaving it a question mark for readers to decide. I also sort of liked "The Stranger" although it was as flat and bleak as the agnostic position will always be. Camus from what I've read was an undecided agnostic rather than an arrogant atheist. Who knows which way he would have gone if he hadn't had that car accident.
I've wondered that too - how he his thought would have continued to develop had he lived longer.
I love the stranger also great review I need to read this one and Notes from Underground
Glad to hear you love The Stranger! :)
Kudos. An excellent review.
Thank you!
Great book, well done Alana.
Thanks so much!
Oh, that’s why you’re so light. You’re a Candice Thompson.
Don't know who that is...
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She’s a pretty awesome comic!
Let us know about pergatory
Alana 🌸 more beautiful than Zoe Saldana.. 🩷
Aw, thank you!!
YES, CAMUS!!!
Miwuk and Irish here
That Irish mix with the Native is a classic. because same LOL
Thanks AE
Thanks for watching!
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Welcome to my channel where I ramble lol. Some People like it, some don’t.