Camus - Sartre, childhood mirrors' - Théâtre des 2 Mondes

"By Cliff Paillé, By Cie La petite étoile, Based on "Le premier homme" by Albert Camus and "Les mots" by Jean Paul Sartre. A show that contrasts the childhoods of Sartre and Camus, as told by themselves, the better to highlight both their troubling similarities and their profound differences. It's a kind of literary ping-pong investigation, gradually revealing who these two geniuses of the pen really were. Press reviews: Télérama - coup de cœur festival Off Avignon 2023. The Camus family too: "a play full of finesse and humor, a surprising and sensitive insight that touched me" Catherine Camus. The quarrel between Sartre and Camus was public, violent and ideological. But why so much hatred? Little Jean-Paul grew up in a plush apartment building near the Luxembourg Gardens. Little Albert in a poor district of Algiers. These are basically banal, universal childhoods, in which everyone can find their own. But made exceptional by their pens and their destinies.

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