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CALIGULA, an attractive prince, upon the death of his sister and mistress, tries, through murder and the systematic perversion of all values, to practice a liberty that he will eventually discover not to be the right one.
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Grave, prestige, bleak and earnest.
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- unpretentiousprestige
- warmbleak
- earnestironic
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Albert Camus
- First published
- 1984
- Pages
- 302
- Publisher
- Hamish Hamilton, H. Hamilton, Penguin in association with Hamish Hamilton
- Editions
- 46
- Language
- und, English, French
- ISBN
- 9780241901113
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“A number of patricians, one a very old man, are gathered in a state room of the imperial palace.”
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 Literature - after Rudyard Kipling - when he became the first African-born writer to receive the award. He is the shortest-lived of any literature laureate to date, having died in an automobile accident j
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