Camus, Our Youthful Years

Abstract

I had arrived in Algiers at the beginning of September 1937 to do my military service while pursuing my studies at the Faculté des Lettres, where I had enrolled the previous year, from Oran, the city where I lived then. I was told that a young theatre company, Le Thé âtre de l’Equipe, was going to present La Celestine, by Fernando de Rojas, a play from the classical Spanish repertory that was on my university syllabus. Taken by a friend from my battalion, I went to the Maison de la Culture, near the University. Seated at the back of the theatre to follow the rehearsal, I was able to observe as well the director, who also played the part of Calixte.