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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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.
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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. Indeed there are some sentences which you will have to read twice in order to understand what the original French text actually meant because certain sentences are not written in a way that English people would say them. Nevertheless, this book is well worth the buy if you are interested in Sartre or merely looking for the plays to read in English.
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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 something good, I sought more and was continually disappointed. That is not a criticism of the plays as they are here, but of the man in a wider context.
No Exit is a great masterpiece of European literature, with echoes of modernism, surrealism, and the theatre of the absurd. I did not think it was all that deep, but it is a wodnerful theatrical experience and full of potential for later analysis. Like the best of Brecht, the viewer is left in a state of conflict and ferment, ready to talk after the work of art is over. Sartre's work meets this standard, and is very close to first-rate literature.
Warmly recommended as a quintessential link in leftist, existential literature. It opened a world to me.
No Exit is a great masterpiece of European literature, with echoes of modernism, surrealism, and the theatre of the absurd. I did not think it was all that deep, but it is a wodnerful theatrical experience and full of potential for later analysis. Like the best of Brecht, the viewer is left in a state of conflict and ferment, ready to talk after the work of art is over. Sartre's work meets this standard, and is very close to first-rate literature.
Warmly recommended as a quintessential link in leftist, existential literature. It opened a world to me.
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Translation needs a lot of work
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. Read more
Published on 26 Mar 2006
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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What is forever like in HELL?
I picked this book up and read it, on a whim, and suddenly realized that I was entranced and couldn't put it down! Read more
Published on 8 April 1998
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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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