阿尔贝·加缪

《西西弗斯的神話》是加繆的一篇短文，全文長120頁，法語版於1942年出版，之後於1955年發表英文版，由查斯丁·歐伯令翻譯。短文的題目來自希臘神話中的一則故事。短文中，加繆用西西弗斯神話來比喻生命本身，探討了自殺的問題及生命的價值。藉此他引入了荒誕主義哲學，此哲學認為生命沒有意義，除了我們構建出的價值外沒有價值。他向人們發問，在這樣一個瑣細的世界上，除了自殺還能做什麼？ 西西弗斯是希臘神話中的一個人物，他因為卓爾不凡的智慧惹惱了眾神。作為懲罰，他雙目失明並被判永久的將一塊大石頭推上山頂，但最終都不可避免地要承受著大石頭滾進山谷的結局。 …

Exile and the Kingdom is a 1957 collection of six short stories by French-Algerian writer Albert Camus. The underlying theme of these stories is human loneliness and feeling foreign and isolated in one's own society.Camus writes about outsiders living in Algeria who straddle the divide between the Muslim world and …

A Happy Death was the first novel by French writer-philosopher Albert Camus. The existentialist topic of the book is the "will to happiness," the conscious creation of one's happiness, and the need of time to do so. It draws on memories of the author including his job at the maritime commission in Algiers, his …