The Myth of Sisyphus is Albert Camus’ philosophical essay introducing the idea of the absurd: the confrontation between the human need for meaning and the universe’s indifferent silence. Rather than concluding in despair, Camus argues we must imagine Sisyphus, condemned to push his boulder up the mountain for eternity, as happy: accepting the absurd without resorting to suicide (literal or philosophical, through false hope) is itself an act of revolt and freedom.
“A man who has become conscious of the absurd is forever bound to it.”