Caligula and Cross Purpose: Two Plays by Albert Camus.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good. 1947. Hamish Hamilton. 1st Edition, 2nd printing.

Caligula reveals some aspects of the existential notion of 'the absurd' by portraying an emperor so mighty and so desperate in his search for freedom that he inevitably destroys gods, men and himself.

The dramatic impetus of Cross Purpose, however, comes from the tension between consent to and refusal of man's absurdity; it is the tragedy of a man who returns home to his mother and sister without revealing his identity to them