Calígula e seu império do nada

Abstract

This article is an aesthetic analysis of how absurdity is presented in the dramaturgy Caligula by Albert Camus. I examine here how the Franco-Algerian author discusses this theme in an artistic composition and how his philosophical theses are articulated in the structure of a play. The guiding thread of the analysis is the problem of negation, a problem that occupied the philosopher-artist throughout his first cycle of works and which finds in Calígula its most significant expression. I also present in this article some considerations regarding the literary and dramatic resources present in the Camus’s play, elements that make it distance itself from the typical Theatre of Absurd.