The Intolerableness of All Earthly Effort : of Futility and Ahab as the Absurd Hero in Melville's Moby Dick
In 1942, Algerian writer Albert Camus published a philosophical essay called The Myth of Sisyphus along with a fictional counterpart, The Stranger, wherein he presumed the human condition to be an absurd one. This, Camus claimed, was the result of the absence of a god, and consequently of any meanin...
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Stockholms universitet, Engelska institutionen
2008
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| Online Access: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-8324 |