Huis clos and other plays
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Huis clos and other plays
(Penguin classics)
Penguin Books, 2000
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In camera and other plays
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Reprint of 1990 ed. under the title: In camera and other plays
Contents of Works
- The respectable prostitute / translated by Kitty Black
- Lucifer and the Lord / translated by Kitty Black
- Huis clos / translated by Stuart Gilbert
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These three plays, diverse in subject but thematically coherent, illuminate one of Sartre's major philosophical concerns: the struggle to live and act freely in a complex and constricting world. Lucifer and the Lord, Sartre's favourite among his plays, explores this theme in depth, dealing in the process with fundamental questions of faith and disillusionment; in Huis Clos - arguably Sartre's most important play - he contends that 'Hell is other people', and details the afterlife of three souls trapped together in locked room and the torments that they inflict on each other; while The Respectable Prostitute, set in the Deep South of America, is concerned with racism, subjugation and the demands of conscience.
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