An angel in search of the absolute? A bloodthirsty monster? Before the war, Albert Camus conceived Caligula, like Sisyphus or Meursault (The Stranger), as a hero of the Absurd. In 1945, the play was received as a fable about the horrors of Nazism. It ...
An angel in search of the absolute? A bloodthirsty monster? Before the war, Albert Camus conceived Caligula, like Sisyphus or Meursault (The Stranger), as a hero of the Absurd. In 1945, the play was received as a fable about the horrors of Nazism. Its successive versions and productions, and the evolution of public sensibilities, have contributed to making Caligula one of the most disturbing figures in our theater. Superimposed in our memory are the faces of Gérard Philipe, who created the role, and that of Albert Camus, who always combined the need for tenderness and the demand for purity with a strange "fixation on murder" and "that inner violence" (Jean Grenier) that drives his Roman emperor.
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