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

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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),

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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 28 March 2024.]

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