Albert Camus - «Caro Professor Germain»

“Dear Professor Germain, I let you calm down a little all the noise that has surrounded me in recent days before coming to speak with you with an open heart.

They have just granted me a great honor, which I neither sought nor asked for. But when I heard the news, my first thought, after my mother, was of you. Without you, without that affectionate hand you extended to the poor little child I was, without your teaching and example, none of this would have happened to me.” Albert Camus had just received the Nobel Prize in Literature when he wrote this note, addressed to his primary school teacher. In this volume, the letters that Albert Camus and Louis Germain exchanged over the years are brought together for the first time, full of mutual affection and admiration. Also included is the text “The School,” an excerpt from *The First Man*, Camus’s unfinished novel, where Germain is transformed into Bernard. “Dear Professor Germain” is a book of homage to the relationship between student and teacher and an inspiring testament to the power of education.