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Caligula

1944

Synopsis

Camus's classic play: the young Roman emperor Caligula, shattered by grief and the truth that "men die and are not happy," pursues the impossible through absolute, murderous freedom. A cornerstone of his cycle of the absurd.

About the author

Albert Camus was a French Algerian author, philosopher, and journalist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. He was a key philosopher of the 20th-century and his most famous work is the novel L'Étranger (The Stranger). In 1949, Camus founded the Group for International Liaisons within the Revolutionary Union Movement, which was a group opposed to some tendencies of the surrealistic movement of André Breton. Camus was the second-youngest recipient of the Nobel Prize for L...

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