Le mythe de Sisyphe (English spelling) Le mythe de Sisyphe

Japanese: 《Le mythe de Sisyphe》(英語表記)LemythedeSisyphe
Le mythe de Sisyphe (English spelling) Le mythe de Sisyphe

…In 1938, he became a reporter for a newspaper in Algiers and wrote many articles criticizing the colonial administration, but World War II broke out shortly thereafter. During this period, he began writing the novel "The Stranger" (1942), which immediately established Camus's status as a writer, and the philosophical essay "The Myth of Sisyphus" (1942). "The Stranger" is a work that expresses the idea of ​​"absurdity" with a man who is sentenced to death for committing an unjust murder as its protagonist, while "The Myth of Sisyphus" is an attempt to explain this idea philosophically. …

*Some of the terminology that refers to "Le mythe de Sisyphe" is listed below.

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Japanese:

…1938年,アルジェの新聞の記者となり,植民地行政を批判する多数の記事を書くが,ほどなく第2次世界大戦が勃発。こうした時期に書き進められたのが,一躍作家としてのカミュの地位を決定的にした小説《異邦人L’étranger》(1942),哲学的エッセー《シジフォスの神話Le mythe de Sisyphe》(1942)である。《異邦人》は理由なき殺人を犯して死刑の判決を受ける男を主人公に,〈不条理〉の思想を表明した作品であり,《シジフォスの神話》はそれを哲学的に解明しようとしたものである。…

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