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Author
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
The first collection of Sartre's key philosophical writings and provides an indispensable resource for all students and readers of his work. Stephen Priest's clear and helpful introductions set each reading in context, making the volume an ideal companion for those coming to Sartre's writings of the first time.
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
English
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Description
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...
9) Baudelaire
Author
Publisher
[New Directions]
Pub. Date
[1967]
Language
English
Description
Sartre's study of Baudelaire is one of the more brilliant achievements of modern criticism. He turned abstractions like Existence and Being, Freedom and Nature, into a theory of psychoanalysis, grounded in man's creativity and opposed to Freudian determinism. Then he put the theory into practice in this book on Baudelaire.
Author
Series
Norton library volume N889
Publisher
Norton
Pub. Date
1978.
Language
English
Description
The Condemned of Altona is an act of judgment on the twentieth century, which might have been an admirable era (the closing lines tell us) if man had not been threatened by 'the cruel enemy who had sworn to destroy him, that hairless, evil, flesh-eating beast--man himself. 'All the characters in the play are defendants, trapped inside the frame of the proscenium as securely as Eichmann within his glass cage in Jerusalem; their judge is the past, and...
Author
Series
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
[1975]
Language
English
Description
In the five stories included in this collection - "The Wall," "The Room," "Erostratus," "Intimacy" and "The Childhood of a Leader"--The French master of Existentialism displays his powers of narrative and psychological insight in the stories of a modern Erostratus who is compelled to murder, a psychotic who communicates his hallucinations to his formerly-sane spouse, an unfaithful wife still bound to her impotent husband, a boy's metamorphosis into...
15) The reprieve
Author
Series
Chemins de la liberté volume 2
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
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.
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