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In these four plays, Jean-Paul Sartre, the great existentialist novelist and philosopher, displays his mastery of the drama. No Exit is an unforgettable portrayal of hell. The Flies is a modern reworking of the Electra-Orestes story. Dirty Hands is about a young intellectual torn between theory and praxis. The Respectful Prostitute is a scathing attack on American racism. 4 plays about an existential portrayal of Hell, the reworking of the Electra-Orestes...
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"First published in French in 1943 Jean-Paul Sartre's L'Être et le Néant is one of the greatest philosophical works of the twentieth century. In it, Sartre offers nothing less than a brilliant and radical account of the human condition. The English philosopher and novelist Iris Murdoch wrote to a friend of "the excitement - I remember nothing like it since the days of discovering Keats and Shelley and Coleridge". What gives our lives significance,...
3) Nausea
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Winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize for Literature, Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher, critic, novelist, and dramatist, holds a position of singular eminence in the world of letters. Among readers and critics familiar with the whole of Sartre's work, it is generally recognized that his earliest novel, La Nausée (first published in 1938), is his finest and most significant. It is unquestionably a key novel of the twentieth century and a landmark in...
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Set in the bohemian Paris of the late 1930s, focuses on three days in the life of a philosophy teacher named Mathieu who is seeking money to pay for an abortion for his mistress, Marcelle. Sartre analyses the motives of various characters and their actions and takes into account the perceptions of others to give the reader a comprehensive picture of the main character. The Age of Reason is concerned with Sartre's conception of freedom as the ultimate...
7) The reprieve
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Chemins de la liberté volume 2
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English
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The French existentialist recreates the shock and confusion of Europe in September of 1938 in a novel which centers on man's search for freedom.
8) The words
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G. Braziller
Pub. Date
1964
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255 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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Jean-Paul Sartre was arguably the best-known and most influential French writer of his time. As a philosopher, as a novelist, as a playwright, as the author of filmscripts, as the editor of Les Temps Modernes, as a man who was never afraid to commit himself to the moral and political as well as the literary life of his own times, he was unique. Not since Voltaire has Western civilization produced so humane, manifold, and boldly "engaged" a man of...
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Chemins de la liberté volume 3
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Knopf
Pub. Date
1951 [i.e. 1950]
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[1st American ed.]
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421 p. 20 cm.
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English
13) Les mains sales
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Collection Soleil volume 33
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Gallimard
Pub. Date
c1948
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258 p. ; 20 cm.
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Français
16) Situations
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G. Braziller
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[©1965]
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371 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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Highly personal essays on literature, philosophy, music, painting, and politics.
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