Meursault no! Zidane is Sisyphus!
Sunday, July 16th, 2006The call to compare Zidane to someone other the Camus’s Meursault has been heard and answered - by The Guardian. Ladies and Gentlemen, Jason Solomons compares Zinedine Zidane to… Sisyphus!
One thinks of the footballing philosopher Albert Camus, like Zidane, a son of Algeria and France. Not of his famous quote about learning everything about life from football, but of his essay The Myth of Sisyphus, the legend who was condemned to forever push his rock to the top of the mountain only to watch it roll back past him. Zidane, the legendary, lonely, long-distance footballer, certainly spent much of that final against Italy carrying the ball towards the opposition penalty area only to see it repelled.