The Myth of Sisyphus, a well-known essay by Camus, represents the essential philosophical complement of the writer?s chief work The Stranger. The Stranger and The Myth thus create a logical whole in which an attentive reader can find the same outline of the writer?s paradigm that Camus held in the first period of his intellectual life. This paradigm is a paradigm of a revolt, which is perceived as a way out of fatal absurdity, contingency and needlessness of human existence. In his monumental reinterpretation of Homer?s epos Camus presents an example of exactly the same ?hero of absurdity?, an everyday proletarian who carries the revolt. Camus believes that a man is able to learn to love his life although it is absurd and unbearably vain. In this respect, his Myth of Sisyphus is an attempt to retrieve the everyday life and also an attempt to re-establish its value as a value for itself.