Le mythe de Sisyphe

“There is but one truly serious philosophical problem: suicide.” With this thunderous formula, which seems to strike out the whole of philosophy in a single stroke, a young man of under thirty begins his analysis of the absurd sensibility. He describes the “sickness of the mind” from which the present age suffers: “The absurd is born of the confrontation between the human call and the unreasonable silence of the world.”