The Sun and Sacrifice
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Keywords

Albert Camus
Apollo
Dionysus
Greek tragedy
Friedrich Nietzsche Albert Camus
Apollo
Dioniso
Tragedia greca
Friedrich Nietzsche

How to Cite

Turra, V. (2020). The Sun and Sacrifice: The Tragic in Albert Camus and Its Reflections in the 21st Century. Visions of the Tragic. Greek Tragedy on the Stage of the 21st Century, (1), 65-78. https://doi.org/10.14275/2724-2854/20201.tur

Abstract

Apollo and Dionysus, declined as figures of the sun and self-sacrifice, are the symbols of the tragic in the narrative work of Albert Camus (L'Étranger, La Peste, La Chute). Through an examination of the sources of this built polarity (the work of Nietzsche; Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonus of Sophocles; The Bacchae of Euripides), an analysis of his occurrences in the three novels and a reflection on the main characters who play it (Meursault; Rieux and Tarrou; Clamence), the essay
traces in the abstraction (abstraction) depicted by Apollo the mental place where the individual fully experiences the absurdity of the human condition, suspended between the needs of the individual and the impersonality of the world: the only escape route, the self sacrifice, in search of a sanctity that does not need divinity to be authentic.

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