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Arch Neurocien 2021; 26 (3)

L’étranger: the absurd and the description of an unrecognized psychiatric disorder

García-Espinosa P, Garza-Marichalar JG, Castillo-Torres SA

Language: English
References: 11
Page: 8-9
PDF size: 148.32 Kb.


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Albert Camus (1913-1960) is one of the most influential authors and philosophers of the twentieth century. His novels and philosophical, influenced by the misfortunes of war during his childhood and his constant struggle against existentialism earned him the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature. In 1942 Camus published is first philosophical essay, Le Mythe de Sisyphe, where he presents his philosophy of the absurd through the story of the Greek king Sisyphus, condemned to the eternal and futile labor of rolling a boulder uphill to watch it go down and start again. Camus uses this story to establish that human existence is absurd and that because of this, life has an inestimable value. Moreover, each one of life moments must be savored with passion and awareness of the abusrd. Alternatively, as Camus wrote: “One must imagine Sisyphus happy”. His honesty, independence and rebellion against the absurdity of existence inspired a generation of students to generate the global movements during the ‘60s. Nowadays, Camus’s novels still echo in our society. Because of the Covid-19 pandemic, La Peste , published in 1947, has resurged and become the subject editorials addressing that the pandemic exposed how we are never entirely prepared for la peste and the cost in human lives is only comparable to the cost in social breakdown.


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