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This paper investigates The Myth of Sisyphus, Albert Camus' work of art based on absurdism as the main theme in relation to intertextuality, particularly in reference to another work of Albert Camus, The Stranger. Though the two books were written in different genres, they bear intertextual relationships. Accordingly, the myth includes a plethora of intertextual links to many other philosophers and philosophical thoughts. Given the presupposition on an intertextual relationship between both books as well as other intertextual connections with various figures and phenomena, such intertextual figures as allusion, quotation and referencing, and irony were applied through extracts from the book to observe the level of intertexuality. In the light of findings, it is claimed that from the very beginning of the end the myth contains intertextual overtones enough to prove that not only does it make reference to a wide range of philosophical figures and thoughts as well as religious terms as the source, but also it apparently provides a basis for the book The Stranger, pointing to a case of 'back to the future' in a sense. Besides, as manifested by examples from the myth, it is suggested that intertextual figures used set its readers thinking and imagining while dealing with the understanding of what is given as a whole. This shows that intertextuality adds both stylistic and contextual contribution to the source text with its various forms of applications.

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