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Angel in search of the absolute? Bloodthirsty monster? Before the war, Albert Camus conceived Caligula, as well as Sisyphus or Meursault (The Stranger), as a hero of the Absurd. In 1945, the play was received as a fable about the horrors of Nazism. Its successive versions and stagings, the evolution of public sensibility have contributed to making Caligula one of the most disturbing figures in our theater. Superimposed on the image of the tyrant, in our memory, are the faces of Gérard Philipe, who created the role, and that of Albert Camus, who always mixed with the need for tenderness and the demand for purity a strange "fixation on murder".