What is Albert Camus's argument on the meaning of life?

Question: What is Albert Camus's argument on the meaning of life!?
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Human existence, Camus claims, is absurd!. This absurdity arises out of our attempts to make sense of a senseless world!.

Absurd is meant to be taken in its original comic sense, which arises out of a comparison of the ridiculous with the sublime, like the fate of Sisyphus who was condemned by the Gods to eternally push a boulder up a hill only to have it roll back down again as he reaches the summit!

Sisyphus' fate, Camus insists, illustrates the futility and hopelessness of labour!. In the face of the absurd we must revolt!. Thus Sisyphus, who is condemned to eternal repetition and fully aware of it, finds that 'the lucidity that was to constitute his torture at th esame time crowns his victory'!. We must, Camus famously says, imagine Sisyphus happy, for 'being aware of one's life, and to the maximum, is living, and to the maximum'!.

Camus argues we cannot solve the problem of the absurd by negating its existence, as with suicide or reconciling meanings with it!. It is a necessary condition of the confrontation between man and world!.
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Camus' personal life wasn't something to be proud of, with several divorces and affairs, dyng of a car crash only 3 years after winning the nobel literature prize!.Www@QuestionHome@Com