Sartre The Wall
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The Wall
Author: Jean-Paul Sartre
language: en
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Release Date: 2010-07-27
One of Sartre’s greatest existentialist works of fiction, The Wall contains the only five short stories he ever wrote. Set during the Spanish Civil War, the title story crystallizes the famous philosopher’s existentialism. '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.
The Wall
Author: Jean-Paul Sartre
language: en
Publisher: New York, New Directions
Release Date: 1948
An earlier edition of this collection published under the title, Intimacy.
The Philosophical Contexts of Sartre’s The Wall and Other Stories
Author: Kevin W. Sweeney
language: en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Release Date: 2016-05-16
The Philosophical Contexts of The Wall and Other Stories presents a philosophical analysis of all five stories in Sartre’s short-story collection, concentrating on characters’ acts of bad faith. Kevin W. Sweeney argues that each of the five stories has its own philosophical problem that serves as the context for the narrative, and that Sartre constructs each story as a reply to the philosophical issue in the context and as support for his position on that issue.