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GATE 2022 XH2 (English) – Question 33

Critical Theories and Intellectual Traditions · Theoretical Paradigms: Structuralism, Marxism, feminism, existentialism, poststructuralism, modernism, postmodernism, new historicism, postcolonialism, posthumanism · 1 mark · Multiple choice

Identify the work from which the following excerpt has been taken:
“In a universe that is suddenly deprived of illusions and of light, man feels a stranger. He is an irremediable exile …. This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, truly constitutes the feeling of Absurdity.”

  1. Frantz Kafka’s The Trial
  2. Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot
  3. Albert Camus’ The Myth of Sisyphus
  4. Harold Pinter’s The Homecoming

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Correct answer: (C) Albert Camus’ The Myth of Sisyphus

Explanation

The passage defining the feeling of the absurd is from Camus's essay The Myth of Sisyphus.