Camus read the book at 20 (“A soul-shaking experience”). Like Dostoevsky, Camus broods about the ailment of freedom without God, about political mass murder in the name of life and the future.

But if we consider, like Camus, Sisyphus at the foot of his mountain, we can see that he is smiling. He is content in his task of defying the Gods, the journey more important than the goal.

ALBERT CAMUS AND SIMONE WEIL ON SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION, Literature and Theology, Vol. 20, No. 3 (September 2006), pp. 286-300. Free online reading for over 10 million articles; ... Simone Weil, to whom ...