The Myth of Sisyphus

I've heard the echo of an age when a person cannot conciliate with God/gods anymore. No amount of metaphysics or theology won't help. No afterlife, and not even apparent justice is available. An uncompromising nihilism will strike:

At any streetcorner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face. As it is, in its distressing nudity, in its light without effulgence, it is elusive.