Absurd Life Simulated Upon the Blank Canvas of the World
Cormac McCarthy’s novel The Road (2006) and Albert Camus’ The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), grapple with the choice of suicide versus struggle when meaning is exposed as socially fabricated. McCarthy declares, “there is no god and we are his prophets”, a dismal idea if one is searching for external mean...
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Septentrio Academic Publishing
2024-12-01
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| Series: | Nordlit: Tidsskrift i litteratur og kultur |
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