The absurd heroes of the stranger (The Outsider) and the myth of Sisyphus In the myth of Sisyphus, Sisyphus is an absurd hero because he realizes his situation, not does not appeal, yet continues the struggle. The purpose of this essay is to demonstrate that The Stranger, in narrative style, also shows us an absurd hero, or the beginning of an absurd hero in Meursault. the epistemology on which he bases all his works. Ant is a very simple epistemology. He says: "I feel this heart inside me and I judge that I exist. I can touch this world and in the same way I judge that it exists. That's where everything ends." mine. knowledge and the rest is construction. The certainty I have of my existence and the content I try to give to that certainty the gap will never be filled. "So for Camus it turns out that life has value but not meaning. Meaning implies a kind of objective, a teleological approach and, for Camus, there is no objective. Life is not a pilgrimage, death is not an open door, but is a closed and blind wall that ultimately serves, obviously, to force us to focus on life. In Camus there is a precise use of the word "absurd". "Absurd" comes from the Latin surdis and in surdis we have a double definition: it means irrational, insensitive (this side we still use the word in mathematics; a 'surd' is an irrational number). But Camus focuses on the other meaning that comes from the root. That is, "deaf, silent". There are many examples in the literature of this particular type of silence. I think of Romeo and Juliet when Juliet was ordered by her parents to marry the earldom of Paris, and in one of Shakespeare's best scenes in that play, he has Juliet's father speak... in the middle of the paper... .And. But rather they are shown to us as tiny mortal specks on a minor planet, in an ordinary solar system, located nowhere in particular, in infinite space, and subject to all sorts of dark irrational forces, over which we have little control. We must live and die with the fear and anxiety, the meaninglessness, frustration and uselessness that people know today. We must live in the present moment and try to discover the real, bare and given facts of human existence; to discover them, face them and live with them. Camus does this; no more, no less. He becomes, so to speak, a godless saint. One could do worse than recall the epigraph that Camus uses at the beginning of the Myth of Sisyphus. He quotes the Greek poet Pindar, written in the 5th century BC; "O my soul, do not aspire to immortal life, but exhaust the limits of the possible".