Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Jean Paul Sartre (1905-1980)

Nausea

  • concerns a dejected researcher, Antoine Roquentin in a town who becomes convinced that inanimate objects and situations such as his research project, the company of "The Self-Taught Man", his memories of a girl Anny, and even his own hands, encroach on his ability to define himself and on his intellectual and spiritual freedom, thus evoking in him a sense of nausea
No Exit
  • "Hell is other people"
  • play begins with a bellhop leading a man named Garcin into a hotel room
  • Hell is portrayed as a gigantic hotel 
  • the room has no windows and only one door
  • Garcin is joined by Inez and Estelle
  • all expect to be tortured but no torturer arrives
  • instead they realize they are there to torture each, which they do by probing each other's sins, desires and unpleasant memories

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