I’m glad someone else posted this. The point of the essay is that Sisyphus is fulfilled and Happy. Sisyphus being miserable at the meaningless and futility of his torment wouldn’t really require an essay.
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.
but isn’t the struggle itself towards the heights enough to fill a man’s heart?
I’m glad someone else posted this. The point of the essay is that Sisyphus is fulfilled and Happy. Sisyphus being miserable at the meaningless and futility of his torment wouldn’t really require an essay.
Wait, what essay?
Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
a very short read itself (often bundled with his other works) but dang, does it slap
Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus