Albert Camus 
Sisyphus Myth 

"[Profile of the author] Albert Camus (1913-1960) is a well-known French novelist, essayist, and playwright, as well as a master of "existentialism" literature. In 1957, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for "passionately and calmly expounding the various issues raised to the conscience of mankind". He is one of the youngest Nobel-winning writers in history. In his novels, plays, essays, and treatises, Camus deeply reveals the loneliness of man in a foreign world, the increasing alienation of the individual and oneself, and the inevitable sin and death, but he is revealing the absurdity of the world. At the same time, he was not desperate and depressed. He advocated to stand up in absurdity and uphold truth and justice in despair. He pointed out a free and humanitarian road beyond Christianity and Marxism to the world. He has the courage to face the bleak life , and his fearless spirit of "knowing the impossible" made him not only in France, but also in Europe and eventually in the whole world after the Second World War, he became the spokesperson of his generation and the spiritual mentor of the next generation.[Introduction] If the two main themes of Camus”s creation and thinking in his life are "absurdity" and "rebellion", then the philosophical essay Sisyphus Myth is Camus”s most in-depth and concentrated investigation and the most thorough and clear interpretation of the absurd philosophy. Sisyphus, a Greek mythological figure who pushes a stone up a mountain, and his endless hard labor is undoubtedly the most vivid symbol of the absurdity of human existence; but at the same time, he is not desperate, not decadent, and rise up in the absurdity, and will not hesitate to fight the absurd destiny to the end. Therefore, rather than saying that Sisyphus Myth is a tragic self-portrait of the human condition, it is better to say that it is a triumphant song of freedom and humanitarianism. In the field of culture and art, perhaps only Beethoven”s Symphony of Destiny is comparable in taste. "