Huis clos [Paperback]

Jean-Paul Sartre (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 11, 1962 | ISBN-10: 0134446798 | ISBN-13: 978-0134446790 | Edition: 1st

No exit, unabridged. Edition of Sartre's well known existentialist novel.

Editorial Reviews

Review

'Two more works in the admirable Methuen series of 20th century texts, designed with the student in mind, with a lengthy introduction by the editor setting the work in context, and notes on difficult or unfamiliar idioms.' - Language Monthly --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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No exit, unabridged. Edition of Sautre's well known existentialist novel.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 110 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall; 1st edition (May 11, 1962)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0134446798
• ISBN-13: 978-0134446790
• Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #173,120 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #84 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Drama > Continental European

More About the Author

Novelist, playwright, and biographer Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-80) is widely considered one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century. His major works include "No Exit," "Nausea," "The Wall," "The Age of Reason," "Critique of Dialectical Reason," "Being and Nothingness," and "Roads to Freedom," an allegory of man's search for commitment, and not, as the man at the off-licence says, an everyday story of French country folk.

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Huis Clos - Others are hell, October 22, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: Huis clos (Paperback)

Jean-Paul Sartre is an existentialist first, then an author. So his books are just the transposition of his philosophy on paper. In Huis Clos, Jean-Paul Sartre explores the human behavior throughout the cowardness of each man and woman that we are. Instead of facing our true reality, we are facing three people who have died and who are encaptured in a grey-looking cell, without windows, without life. Now, for the first time, they have to face each other and then they have to close their eyes to seek the conscience within them.

It is very hard to dislike this book, because it is a humanist work, a book that show us the true existence of man on Earth. And I shall add that such a book with such a subject deserves at least 9 out of ten.

Pascal Tremblay

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Human-behaviour, December 6, 1999

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This review is from: Huis clos (Paperback)

In Huit-Clos, Jean-Paul Sartre makes an analysis of human-behaviour. The scene takes place in a cell where three people are faced with each other. The reader is immediatly impregnated of different personalities and understands the fears of each one to stay eternaly together because, like Jean-Paul Sartre concludes: "The hell is others."

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars huis-clos, March 3, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Huis clos (Paperback)

le huis clos c' est un tres bon livre et vous conseille vivement a le lire.L 'auter traite des sujets tres interessants comme la faute de sincerite des gens quand ils n'ont pas beaucoup de pression sur eux.L'existentialisme est aussi present, mais je prefere de ne rien dire de plus et que vouz lisiez le livre.