Albert Camus – do silêncio de Deus à santidade sem Deus

Abstract

The research paper was concentrated at the analysis of selected works of Albert Camus, a litter French-Algerian, seen at the treaty to the 20th century Christian religious imaginary. At the first hand, it was made an analytical passage at the Theater of the Absurd – the dramas Caligula and The Misunderstanding – in order to report the camusian conception of the Christian divinity. Under the denial‘s prism. At the second hand, it was concentrated on the novel The Plague, looking for the camusian perception about holiness without God. At the Theater of the Absurd, God was represented in silence terms. Thus, constituting a peculiar form of negative eschatology. At the novel The Plague, the God‘s silence precedes and impels holiness without God. In this sense, the research could focus on the litter-dramatic itinerary by God‘s silence to the holiness without God. The basic concepts of camusian thought, Absurd and Revolt, were delimited. Concerning to the Christian religion and reduced, thus, to the silence and holiness aspects. Retracting in the opacity terms, The God Question, were left on the Theater of the Absurd to give a place to the question about holiness with no God in The Plague. Under war‘s influence, Camus outlined a world in decay, governed by tragic force, and above it there was a missing God who stay in silence in front of the death spectacle. Despite, for Camus the Revolt is the only logic result of Absurd‘s confirmation, because of it, The Plague translate it by following morally in opposition to misery and death, without waiting God than him silence. In this outburst death‘s resistance rises the typical novel character, the holy without God. At the end, the moral in holy without God was focused. It was provided by compassion and hope deprived, the camusian holy was born by the sensible experience with suffering, it is held, essentially, by the horror of death and inexpiable scandal in the madness presence.