No Exit and Three Other Plays
4 plays about an existential portrayal of Hell, the reworking of the Electra-Orestes story, the conflict of a young intellectual torn between theory and conflict and an arresting attack on American racism.
4 plays about an existential portrayal of Hell, the reworking of the Electra-Orestes story, the conflict of a young intellectual torn between theory and conflict and an arresting attack on American racism.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780679725169 (0679725164)
Publish date: October 23rd 1989
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 275
Edition language: English
No Exit is iconic and important, even if it is a little obvious in retrospect and even if Sartre's ideas have become a little cliche. (Well, that's to his credit, isn't it?) I haven't read Electra (the Sophocles version) in forever but I feel like The Flies is an interesting reworking of the myth / ...
Three strangers are trapped in a hotel room in Hell. Each character is attracted to one roommate and repulsed by the other. Each pursues the person who rejects them in a never ending cycle of frustration. When the door is unlocked they are too afraid of the unknown to leave the miserable situation...
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