No Exit

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No Exit

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ISBN: 9780573613050
author: Jean-Paul Sarte / Jean-Paul Sartre
publishing house: Samuel French, Inc.
publication date: 1958 -12
language: English
binding: Paperback
price: USD 10.95
number of pages: 60

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A Play in One Act

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Jean-Paul Sarte / Jean-Paul Sartre   

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Jean-Paul Sartre, the great French existentialist, displays his mastery of drama in NO EXIT, an unforgettable portrayal of hell.
The play is a depiction of the afterlife in which three deceased characters are punished by being locked into a room together for all eternity. It is the source of Sartre's especially famous and often misinterpreted quotation "L'enfer, c'est les autres" or "Hell is other people", a reference to Sartre's ideas about the Look and the perpetual ontological struggle of being caused to see oneself as an object in the world of another consciousness.

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