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"A wonderful work to read at different stages in our life-
Deep . Great handle of the emotions , the sense of duty, moral , ethic -Four plays and every of them set in a different time but the reader feels comfortable in the way it has been written. More than once to stop and think about because the themes are about the problematic of human beings and the conflict exposed makes us think which would our position be ."
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Caligula suivi de le Malentendu French Edition Albert Camus 9780828836616 Books Reviews
- A wonderful work to read at different stages in our life-
Deep . Great handle of the emotions , the sense of duty, moral , ethic -Four plays and every of them set in a different time but the reader feels comfortable in the way it has been written. More than once to stop and think about because the themes are about the problematic of human beings and the conflict exposed makes us think which would our position be . - A bit outdated, very long monologues and stage activity almost non-existing.
- We read Caligula for my World lit 2 class. It was an excellent play that did a great job at illustrating the existentialist philosophy of Camus.
- Camus is great, but the novel is his strongest media.
- I had to buy the book for school. One of the most expansive books I bought. Any one in school knows buying on is the best even though books should be included in the class cost.
- Camus does an excellent job of contrasting individual insanity and collective insanity in his play Caligula. Basically, Caligula is insane. He is a despot who holds the lives of his subjects in his hands. At times, for very arbitrary reasons, he kills or executes someone from his court. This seems arbitrary and frightenging. Yet, Caligula is contrasted against sane military officers who engage in terrible acts of war where thousands upon thousands of civilians and soldiers are killed. So who is insane? Is it the dictator who might execute someone in his court for very trivial reasons or is it the rational military general who kills thousands and thousands of persons in rational and supposedly justified warfare? Camus reveals to the careful reader that societal evil is far more dangerous than individual evil. This is a wonderful thoughtful classic play that demonstrates Camus' ability to bring complex concepts to dramatic life.
The Misunderstanding, another play in this volume, is another complex drama. An innkeeper and her old maid daughter kills guests of the inn when they are able to discern that the guest's death can not be tracked. They rob the guests which supplements their income. They long for the return of the beloved son of the innkeeper who has been gone for years and years without contact. As you might expect, the son returns to the inn and is murdered by his mother and sister. The deed is revealed when his wife arrives and finds him missing. Camus here deals with the concept of objectification of others so that violence may be done to them without remorse. When the innkeeper and her daughter find they have murdered the long lost son, they are beside themselves with grief. But yet they have murdered many innocent travelers without remorse because they have been able to divorce themselves from any thoughts that these travelers were fellow humans. A simple play with a simple point, yet it points to a terrible feature of human existence, that we can commit unspeakable horror on others once we have convinced ourselves that they are no longer human beings. Camus recognized that prejudice kills, it is not beneign.
I appreciate Camus' ability to make a point without preaching or overstating. I strongly suggest this book of 4 short plays. - Camus at his best.
- The cover of Caligula shows an abstract horse bucking, and that is just what Caligula does to us. It knocks us off our high-horse by bringing us face-to-face with death. Only (and I do not choose that word lightly) a true understanding of death can put lives in perspective. Sure Caligula is a despot who could have the life of any of his subjects, but the fact-of-the-matter is that our lives can end at any second. Caligula teaches us not to take life for granted, which is something that is all to easily done in this era. This theme also exists in State of Seige. The other two plays, The Misunderstanding, and The Just Assasins are more subtle, but they also deal with idea that we take petty concerns and ideas too seriously, and fail to look and the big picture. I should also add that the language and passion of the plays are exceptional.
