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Abstract
In The Myth of Sisyphus, Albert Camus states: 'In a universe suddenly divested of illusions and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home country or the hope of a promised land.'' Orlando Patterson, in a sociological monograph, describes 'the modern crisis' as 'the problem of exile, alienation, rootlessness, being and identity'.^ Patterson's fictional works, as well as his non-fictional studies in sociology and social philosophy, are explicidy and heavily indebted to the writings of Camus and Sartre.^ Indeed, he finds in Existentialism the deepest analysis of the 'modern crisis' or, as he also terms it, the 'exilic crisis'.
Recommended Citation
McDonald, Avis G., The Crisis of the Absurd in Orlando Patterson's An Absence of Ruins, Kunapipi, 8(2), 1986.
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