Considered a fully-fledged integral work of the trilogy of the absurd together with "The Stranger" and "The Myth of Sisyphus", "Caligula" represents, through the cruelties of this mad emperor, behind whom all the intelle ...
Considered a fully-fledged integral work of the trilogy of the absurd together with "The Stranger" and "The Myth of Sisyphus", "Caligula" represents, through the cruelties of this mad emperor, behind whom all the intellectuals of the time recognized Hitler, the struggle between the individual's awareness and the inability to rebel against the tyrant of a political and intellectual class that has lost its cultural identity. Camus dedicated almost twenty years to the writing of this theatrical work, reworking it several times, so much so that the three final drafts present significant differences from each other. In this one, from 1944, Caligula's madness and the ferocious tyranny that follows are fueled by the pain for the death of Drusilla, his sister and lover. The emperor, unable to accept the painful reality, decides to vent his suffering in inhuman violence, but his delusions of omnipotence and his destructive force will lead him to annihilate himself as well.
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