Les Mains Sales (Collection Folio) (French Edition) [Mass Market Paperback]

Jean-Paul Sartre (Author)

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• Mass Market Paperback: 247 pages
• Publisher: Gallimard (December 31, 1992)
• Language: French
• ISBN-10: 2070368068
• ISBN-13: 978-2070368068
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.3 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #643,117 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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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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5.0 out of 5 stars Sartre's existentialism in the original French--in a reader-friendly nutshell, May 19, 2011

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This review is from: Les Mains Sales (Collection Folio) (French Edition) (Mass Market Paperback)

A communist party member in an exotic Balkan locale kills one of his comrades. Is it because that comrade is fooling around with the protagonist's girl, or because he objects to some shade of his comrade's political views? It is left to the murderer/assassin to decide--and with his decision comes the all-important impact on the "essence" of his victim as a sort of existential epitaph.

This is a good and not overly difficult read for the American student who has aced three or more years of high school French.