He’s condemned to suffer by doing something pointless. That’s it. The author trusts you to compartmentalize this from all other information surrounding the story because it’s not an commentary on the story of Sisyphus, it’s an essay about a philosophical problem that uses the story of Sisyphus as a tool to make its point.
He’s condemned to suffer by doing something pointless. That’s it. The author trusts you to compartmentalize this from all other information surrounding the story because it’s not an commentary on the story of Sisyphus, it’s an essay about a philosophical problem that uses the story of Sisyphus as a tool to make its point.