No Exit, and Three Other Plays
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780613638531 (0613638530)
Publish date: October 1st 1989
Publisher: Turtleback Books
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...