No Exit
- Authors
- Sartre, Jean Paul
- Publisher
- Samuel French, Inc.
- Tags
- classics , no;exit;jean;paul;sartre , philosophy
- ISBN
- 9780573613050
- Date
- 1944-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.10 MB
- Lang
- en
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.