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The piece was first performed in October 1948, and was initially received poorly by critics and public, who had eagerly awaited the work, but expected a dramatisation of Camus's novel
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regime through the manipulation of fear. In a piece written in 1948, in reply to criticisms from
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has remained almost constantly in print in French, and since 1958 in an English translation by
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