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The Wall Jean-Paul Sartre

The Wall By Jean-Paul Sartre

The Wall by Jean-Paul Sartre


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Summary

One of Sartre's greatest existentialist works of fiction, The Wall contains the only five short stories he ever wrote. Set during the Spanish Civil War, the title story crystallizes the famous philosopher's existentialism.

The Wall Summary

The Wall: (Intimacy) and Other Stories by Jean-Paul Sartre

'The Wall', the lead story in this collection, introduces three political prisoners on the night prior to their execution. Through the gaze of an impartial doctor-seemingly there for the men's solace-their mental descent is charted in exquisite, often harrowing detail. And as the morning draws inexorably closer, the men cross the psychological wall between life and death, long before the first shot rings out. This brilliant snapshot of life in anguish is the perfect introduction to a collection of stories where the neurosis of the modern world is mirrored in the lives of the people that inhabit it . This is an unexpurgated edition translated from the French by Lloyd Alexander.

The Wall Reviews

Leaves Lady Chatterley's Lover asleep at the post. -- Punch

About Jean-Paul Sartre

Jean-Paul Sartre was a prolific philosopher, novelist, public intellectual, biographer, playwright and founder of the journal Les Temps Modernes. Born in Paris in 1905 and died in 1980, Sartre was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1964-and turned it down. His books include Nausea, Intimacy, The Flies, No Exit, Sartre's War Diaries, Critique of Dialectical Reason, and the monumental treatise Being and Nothingness.

Additional information

GOR003064453
9780811201902
0811201902
The Wall: (Intimacy) and Other Stories by Jean-Paul Sartre
Used - Very Good
Paperback
New Directions Publishing Corporation
19690201
144
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