Abstract

The misanthropes of Camus and Greene: Calígula and Dr. Fischer

This paper compares the characters of Caligula and Dr. Fischer, who correspondingly appear in the works Calígula, by Albert Camus and the novel Dr. Fischer of Geneva or the Bomb Party, by Graham Greene. Upon the basis of the Platonic concept of misanthropy and the relationship between the latter and megalomania, a series of parallelisms are commented and some differences are defined in order to arrive at philosophical conclusions.

Key words: Albert Camus; Graham Greene; European literature; Contemporary French literature; Contemporary literature in English; comparative literature