The Rebel
The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
Albert Camus
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The Rebel Further Reading & Resources
Further Reading: Literature
The Plague by Albert Camus (1947)
Published right after World War II and only a few years before The Rebel, The Plague is one of Camus’s most famous fictional works. It describes a town overtaken by a mysterious epidemic that kills a large swathe of a town’s population and leads to widespread suffering, stoking tensions between the survivors. Some critics have argued that the novel can be read as an allegory of Nazism, in which the plague is a stand-in for a moral disease that slowly destroys a civilization.
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Further Reading: Beyond Literature (Nonfiction)
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus (1942)
The Myth of Sisyphus is an essay by Camus in which he contemplates the apparent meaningless and absurdity of human existence, and questions how and why man can find ways to keep living when there appears to be no overreaching purpose in the universe. While often hailed as a landmark work in the philosophical tradition of absurdism, it can also be read as an answer to nihilism, the intellectual trend Camus repeatedly accuses throughout The Rebel of leading to the greatest disasters of the 20th century. In The Myth of Sisyphus, Camus seeks to reaffirm both the worth of human existence and the meaning man can create for himself through his own actions and values.
