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The Wall

And Other Stories

By Jean-Paul Sartre

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| Paperback | 9780811201902

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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 at their most effective. Sartre's characters and situations mirror the coContinue

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 at their most effective. Sartre's characters and situations mirror the conflicts, complexities, neuroses and sensuality of the twentieth century. His intellectual underworld includes 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 an anti-semitic fascist, and the astonishing fate of a political prisoner.
The close-ups of these people living in a contemporary world are vividly real; their stories are gripping and almost unbearably suspenseful. Polyphonic themes of decadence, sexual perversion, insanity and political and social amorality are skillfully woven throughout the entire collection of stories.
Translated by Lloyd Alexander, this is an unexpurgated edition. Punch said of the English edition: "Leaves Lady Chatterley's Lover asleep at the post."
An earlier clothbound edition of this collection was published under the title Intimacy.

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  • The Wall

    Jean-Paul Sartre is best known as a philosopher, an existentialist who mixed with the likes of Simone de Beauvoir. But he was also a fiction writer, his most famous and best novel being ‘Nausea,’ published in 1938. ‘Nausea’ was his first novel. ‘The ... (read full critics)

    laurahird published on Fri, 10 Sep 2010

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  • A interesting set of stories on the existentialist theme, although this seems to mean here different aspects of isolation and denial. I particularly enjoyed "Herostratus" for it's obvious similarities to Taxi Driver but also for it representing more how I feel about existentialism!

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