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4 plays about an existential portrayal of Hell, the reworking of the Electra-Orestes story, the conflict of a young intellectual torn between theory and conflict and an arresting attack on American racism.
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19 of 22 people found the following review helpful
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These four plays by Sartre are all very different in style if not tone, but they all cut to the bone of meaning in delivering their sobering messages. The best play is also the most famous, No Exit, filled with brilliant language and dramatic fire. The situations and questions posed within aspeak directly to our age. Next, The Respectful Prostitute, which shows how funny existentialists can be, and how gut-wrenching comedy can be both funny and chilling. The Flies is a wonderfully inventive play that one can picture just by reading, with its harsh words, though in the guise of classical language, never missing a stab at the characters--or the audience. The weakest play, Dirty Hands, is still a compelling but rather cliched drama which is a little too ponderous for theatre, but dead on with its analysis of the human condition. Overall, a very worthwhile collection and a great introduction to Sartre, and existentialism.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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I picked this book up and read it, on a whim, and suddenly realized that I was entranced and couldn't put it down! I was hypnotized by No Exit (Huis Clos), and was thrilled and jarred by it. After I finished it, it really affected me. It is an unforgettable play! Each of the characters were so complex, and so real. The structure was infinitely ingenious, and infused with a brilliance that only Sartre could give. Usually, I don't like existentialism, but this is one play that no one should pass up. After I read it, I have been talking about it to all of my friends, raving and ranting, because it insuperable good. A great read, if you want to be transported to another world.
10 of 13 people found the following review helpful
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The play "No Exit" is fantastic... a kind of psychological thriller about how people can get inside other people's heads and torment them through their weaknesses. A strange portrayal of hell that is truly hellish. However the translation from French to English is really poor. I believe it is "transliterated"; translated almost word for word, which overlooks the meaning or expression of certain phrases. For ex., "That's so, isn't it?", from the French," C'est ca, n'est pas?" Is that correct English? Shouldn't it be.. "Isn't it so?" or maybe, "Is that so"? Another ex., "We use to go"...", instead of we USED to go. It is "translated" like that all the way through the play. I found it very distracting, at best, and ultimately quite confusing. I found myself guessing at what Sartre was really trying to say.
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perfect high school fare
This is the best lit that Sartre produced. He was one of the first "intellectuals" who I dutifully followed like I did Rock Stars once their original groups broke up: once I found... Read more
Published 12 months ago by rob crawford
Translation issues partly spoil a good read.
4 very readable plays which can be enjoyed and understood by any English reader. However, you can tell that the book has been translated from French into English. Read more
Published 19 months ago by william1066
Good edition of Sartre's arguably best plays
For those of you (myself included) whose French abilities are not nearly adequate for enjoying such demanding, guilt-ridden dramas as 'Huis Clos'/'No Exit' in Sartre's original... Read more
Published on 15 April 2003 by Dagfinn Hobaek
not bad, for existentialism
I like existentialist writings, because they are almost always thought provoking, but I seldom agree w/ the thoughts or ideas presented. No Exit is of course the famous one. Read more
Published on 11 Mar 1999
Hell is other people
No Exit is a great play. The people are not incredibly evil or anything, they are just like us, with the same hopes and desires. They also make the same mistakes. Read more
Published on 14 Oct 1998
Brilliant.....click and buy this one NOW
'No Exit' was easily the best play I have ever read and it totally blew me away. It was engaging, thought-provoking and truthful. Read more
Published on 5 Aug 1998
Good stuff
This collection of plays is very good, and not just for the title piece. "No Exit," of course, is a famous work no one interested in existentialism is unfamiliar with. Read more
Published on 27 May 1998
Comfort in thought.
Stuck on an island with no one else to torment you. One could draw great comfort from Jean Paul Sartr's No-Exit. Read more
Published on 6 Aug 1997
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