** Preface

** The Myth Of Sisyphus

*** An Absurd Reasoning

**** Absurdity and Suicide

**** Absurd Walls

**** Philosophical Suicide

**** Absurd Freedom

*** The Absurd Man

**** Don Juanism

**** Drama

**** Conquest

*** Absurd Creation

**** Philosophy and Fiction

**** Kirilov

**** Ephemeral Creation

*** The Myth Of Sisyphus

**** Appendix: Hope and the Absurd in the Work of Franz Kafka

** Summer In Algiers

** The Minotaur or The Stop In Oran

*** The Street

*** The Desert in Oran

*** Sports

*** Monuments

*** Ariadne’s Stone

** Helen’s Exile

** Return To Tipasa

** The Artist And His Time

*** I. As an artist, have you chosen the role of witness?

*** II. Is not the quixotism that has been criticized in your recent works an idealistic and romantic definition of the artist’s role?

*** III. The Marxists and their followers likewise think they are humanists. But for them human nature will be formed in the classless society of the future.

*** IV. Is not that what in reality separates you from the intellectuals of the left?

*** V. What can the artist do in the world of today?