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From: Jean-Paul Sartre: A Literary and Political Study[(essay date 1960) Here, Thody provides a general overview of each of the short stories collected in The Wall, focusing on how they serve as illustrations of "Sartre's favourite philosophical ideas."] Before the...
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From: Hartford Studies in LiteratureI It has now and then been noted that in the work of Jean-Paul Sartre "The Wall" holds a singularly privileged position. First published in 1939, this short story compresses into one vividly rendered situation nearly...
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From: Critique[(essay date summer 2003) In the following essay, Craps argues that class issues are an important part of any reflection on the ethical dimensions of Last Orders.] I'm remembering what Jack said, in the desert, that...
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From: Romance Notes[(essay date 1983) In the following essay, Harvey examines Sartre's use of obscenity in "The Making of a Leader," focusing on how it serves to develop character and plot.] Sartre's collection of short stories Le Mur...
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From:Reference Guide to World Literature (2nd ed.)Sartre's widely acclaimed one-act play, No Exit, was first performed in Paris in 1944 during the German Occupation. The play tells the story of three people who have died and gone to hell, where they are condemned to...
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From: VLS[In the following excerpt, Romano praises Cohen-Solal for shedding light on the question of why Sartre—with all his intellectual inconsistencies and personal flaws—managed to achieve such influence and renown.] What...
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From: Critique[(essay date summer 2000) In the following essay, Fulmer emphasizes Jean-Paul Sartre's notions of identity and human consciousness in Lost in the Funhouse.] Lost in the Funhouse is a book in which language and...
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From:Reference Guide to World Literature (2nd ed.)Jean-Paul Sartre can be said to have made a profession of being the gadfly of France and of a sizeable portion of the western world for some three decades following World War II. His moral authority extended far beyond...
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From: Yale French StudiesSartre was always interested in the relation between an individual and his or her time. The early Sartre seemed to focus on the manner in which we deny the freedom which constitutes us, while the later Sartre emphasises...
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From:Reference Guide to World Literature (2nd ed.)The Age of Reason is the first volume the series Paths of Freedom. Other volumes, The Reprieve (Le Sursis) and Iron in the Soul (La Mort dans l'âme), appeared in 1945 and 1949. One fragment of the final unfinished part...
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From: The Other Within: Ethics, Politics, and the Body in Simone de Beauvoir[(essay date 2004) In the following essay, Scarth contends that Beauvoir essentially asserts in The Second Sex that both women and men "do not live their bodies authentically within patriarchy," and thus fail to achieve...
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From: NationNo Exit (Biltmore Theater) is the English version of a phenomenally successful French play by Jean-Paul Sartre, high priest of existentialism. The scene is hell, the running time only a little over an hour and a quarter,...
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From: French Review[(essay date 2012) In the following essay, Reis explores the relationship between Christian missionary work and colonial subjugation as the two are presented in Houseboy. He suggests that in the novel, the Church’s...
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From: World Literature Today[(essay date winter 2002) In the following essay, Loughman traces the influence of William Butler Yeats on Kenzaburō Ōe's writing.] A longtime admirer of William Butler Yeats, Ōe Kenzaburō has often discovered in the...
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From: Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex: New Interdisciplinary Essays[(essay date 1998) In the following essay, Mackenzie contends that Beauvoir's account of how oppression "structures the psyches and the bodies of women" in The Second Sex is both limited by and calls into question the...
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From: Existentialism and Contemporary Cinema: A Sartrean Perspective[(essay date 2011) In the following essay, McCaffrey explores how Sartrean existentialism helps the reader understand the choices made by the three main characters of the film No Country for Old Men.] The point is …...
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From: Cithara[(essay date 2014) In the following essay, Scherr discusses Camus’s development of “the linkage between stones, human guilt, and Messianic redemption” in “The Growing Stone” and The Stranger.] Among the most...
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From: The Theatre of Jean-Paul SartreSartre's plays, and especially The Flies, are generally considered to be vulgarizations of his previously elaborated philosophical positions. This assumption is misleading. The Flies is the first work in which Sartre...
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From: Yale French Studies[(essay date 1948) In the following essay, Smith discusses the relationships between the main characters in Sarte's "The Making of a Leader," concluding that the story serves as propaganda against Zola's theories of...
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From: Southern ReviewThe gap between Les Bonnes (1947) and the journal (1948) on the one hand and Le Balcon on the other represents a turning point in [Genet's] life. The crisis was obviously of some magnitude and to a large extent it must...