Albert Camus, Requiem pour une nonne [Requiem for a Nun]

Tara Collington (University of Waterloo)

Ed. by David Houston Jones, University of Exeter
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.5.2.07: French Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Kate Averis (University of Western Australia), Hugo Azerad (University of Cambridge), Patrick ffrench (King's College London), Edward Forman (University of Bristol), Akane Kawakami (Birkbeck, University of London), Siobhán McIlvanney (King's College London), Sinan Richards (King's College London), Tim Unwin (University of Bristol), David Williams (University of Sheffield)

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First circulation or publication 1956

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France (Country of Origin)

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Requiem pour une nonne [Requiem for a Nun], Albert Camus's stage adaptation of the American novel of the same title published by William Faulkner in 1951, first opened at the Théâtre des Mathurins-Marcel Herrand in Paris on September 20, 1956. At the time, Camus was already an acclaimed dramatist in his own right with several plays to his credit, including Le Malentendu [The Misunderstanding] (1944), Caligula (1945), and Les Justes [The Just] (1949). He was also well-known as an adaptor, having staged his own versions works by Pierre de Larivey, Piedro Calderon, Lope de Vega and Dino Buzzati. After Requiem, he went on to adapt Fyodor Dostoevsky's Les Possédés [The Possessed] (1959) for the stage.

Faulkner published Requiem for a Nun as a sequel to his first novel, Sanctuary (1931), which recounts the story of...

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Citation: Collington, Tara. "Requiem pour une nonne". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 09 February 2009 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=16901, accessed 09 June 2026.]

Albert Camus, Requiem pour une nonne [Requiem for a Nun]

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