Camus’s stage adaptation of Dostoevsky’s demons

Absztrakt

This article aims to explore Albert Camus’s concept of „revolt” and how it was distinct from „nihilism”. Additionally, it will examine the ways in which it came to expression on the stage, specifically in his 1959 adaptation of Dostoevsky’s Demons. The structure of the article will be as follows: 1) Introduction, 2) the connection between Camus’s concept of revolt on the one hand and his distaste for surrealism and the theatre of the absurd on the other hand, 3) Dostoevsky’s and Camus’s ideas of nihilism will be compared, its nature, root causes and antidote, as well as 4) ) why Camus thought Dostoevsky’s vision of nihilism was still relevant nearly a century later.