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Absurdism: Further Reading

This thread will be a place to post links to sources of information on Absurdism.

The Myth of Sisyphus, by Albert Camus, is an essay on Absurdism. SparkNotes has done an excellent job of summarizing it. It's the best and most complete source of information on Absurdism that I've seen on the internet. You can find it here...

http://www.sparknotes.com/philosophy/sisyphus/

The Stranger, also by Albert Camus, is a novel written around the same time as he wrote The Myth of Sisyphus. It has a strong Absurdist theme to it. SparkNotes wrote a summary of it, as well. It can be found here...

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/stranger/

The Plague, another novel by Albert Camus, also has a strong Absurdist theme to it. SparkNotes also wrote a summary of this book. You can find it here...

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/plague/

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Permalink Reply by Dallas the Phallus on February 15, 2009 at 2:47pm

Thanks for starting this group. I think I will like it here. Hope we can keep it active. I'm enjoying reading the links you've provided here, though it will take me some time to get through them all.

Permalink Reply by Sean T. on February 15, 2009 at 2:58pm

Some of these books are actually available online in their entirety. However, at the moment, I've forgotten exactly where they're at.

Permalink Reply by Sean T. on April 20, 2009 at 10:37pm

Someone recently reminded me about the psychology behind the feeling of the Absurd. It's called cognitive dissonance. Here's the Wikipedia article on it...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance

Permalink Reply by Kevin Ray Smith on May 15, 2011 at 1:34am