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The Wall: (Intimacy) and Other Stories

Jean-Paul Sartre

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'The Wall', the lead story in this collection, introduces three political prisoners on the night prior to their execution. Through the gaze of an impartial doctor--seemingly there for the men's solace--their mental descent is charted in exquisite, often harrowing detail. And as the morning draws inexorably closer, the men cross the psychological wall between life and death, long before the first shot rings out. This brilliant snapshot of life in anguish is the perfect introduction to a collection of stories where the neurosis of the modern world is mirrored in the lives of the people that inhabit it . This is an unexpurgated edition translated from the French by Lloyd Alexander.

Book Details

  • Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
  • Publish Date: Jan 17th, 1969
  • Pages: 144
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.02in - 5.37in - 0.44in - 0.37lb
  • EAN: 9780811201902
  • Categories: • Literary• Short Stories (single author)

About the Author

Sartre, Jean-Paul: - Jean-Paul Sartre was a prolific philosopher, novelist, public intellectual, biographer, playwright and founder of the journal Les Temps Modernes. Born in Paris in 1905 and died in 1980, Sartre was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1964--and turned it down. His books include Nausea, Intimacy, The Flies, No Exit, Sartre's War Diaries, Critique of Dialectical Reason, and the monumental treatise Being and Nothingness.

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"We must imagine Humpty-Dumpty as an egg, not a man. For in ascribing him excess fragility, we deny that same fragility within our bare humanity. Yet to sit on the wall is to take our vertigo by the throat, mastering our angst by shattering upon it" --Jean Paul Sartre probably

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Leaves Lady Chatterley's Lover asleep at the post.-- "Punch"

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