Conciencia, condición y estado trágicos en el pensamiento de Albert Camus

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to show that the starting anthropological point in Albert Camus’ thought is the tragic status of men which implies the recognition and the awareness of our condition and state of mortal, limited and suffering beings. To put forward our case we will resort to five of his works: The Stranger, in which is shown the immanent imprint and self-sufficient heroism in Meursault; The Myth of Sisyphus, as a song to the absurd before the victorious ineluctability of the tragic destiny of men; The Plague, as an objective war chronicler which states the contradictory essence of human nature, and The Rebel and Letters to a German Friend as testimonies of a rebelliousness with no concessions as for a struggle against the inexorable absurdity of human life. We will show that the final proposal in Camus reaches its highest ethical-aesthetic refinement as a possible anthropological salvation in the goodness-beauty binomial deeply rooted in a search of telluric justice.