As a 14-year-old boy, Albert Camus’s “The Stranger” and “The Plague” were difficult to comprehend. That’s precisely why “The Myth of Sisyphus” (1942) (original title: Le Mythe de Sisyphe) seemed to clearly convey what Camus wanted to say. Sisyphus, as you know, is the mythological figure condemned to endlessly push a boulder up a mountain. This punishment resembles torture. Yet Camus suggests that meaning, value, and existence emerge from continuing to perform this seemingly meaningless action. Albert Camus takes the philosophical stance that even if reality is meaningless, this doesn’t justify abandoning life—a perspective that provides remarkable strength against despair. Camus isn’t alone in this thinking. In “Yes To Life… “The Myth of Sisyphus” as an Entry Point to Existentialism