No Exit and Three Other Plays

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Summary: No exiting for "No Exit"
Review: No Exit was a spectacular book, focusing on a form of hell that most people neglect to see as such- other humans. Even complete strangers can effect one another to such a great extent, and when coupled with the inability to move away from each other, you have the most effective torture possible.

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Summary: Nothingness
Review: Okay, let me start with mentioning that this book is worth of few hours. Turn off the TV and read it.
Sartre's existentialism is best expressed in his fictions including this one, at least I think.
His persuation to nothingness is not quite expressible without phenomenological settings. And here they are.
I'm having hard time to interest myself by reading Being and Nothingness, but this book is fun to read and easier to capture by sense, not even getting to literal understanding of existentialism.
For those of whom not interested in Philosophy, this book still is to read. It's a well written persuasive book which doesn't seem spoiled by translation. If it doesn't bring us original intention of Sartre, the translator was as brilliant as the author. So read it.

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Summary: No exit and the whole it has
Review: Reading this book for a school summer reading list is like putting a gun to my head, or so i thought. I really enjoyed this play because of the diolgue between characters and the witty behavior that Sarte used. however i found parts of it so bloody boring that i could help but fall asleep. I did most of it very enjoyable and i hope that you will tring reading it as well.

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Summary: I loved it-- especially the way he made Hell out to be.
Review: Sartre used such an ingeneous way to present Hell to John Q. Public. The way he made Hell to be other people instead of the traditional torture chamber was amazing. I can't praise it enough!

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Summary: He didn't need to say 'Hell'
Review: Sartre's only shortcoming here is that he made too great an effort to push existentialism to a wide array of theatre-goers. Had he chosen to avoid labeling his heated room "Hell" his message would probably have been missed by many of the upper class image-seekers. (Perhaps the crowd he was most interested in targeting.) For art's sake, however, those of us who care could have been a bit more tickled to figure it out for ourselves. Overall, smartly written and I'll pick him up again.

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Summary: Comfort in thought.
Review: Stuck on an island with no one else to torment you. One could draw great comfort from Jean Paul Sartr's No-Exit. Sitting on your island you can contemplate the validity of the famous quote "Hell is other people." Great reading and great fun from the master of existentialism

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Summary: Gets right to the point and doesn't let go.
Review: Superbly written,extremely intelligent and ironic. Sartre exposes human nature's desire to live in a world of self-imposed hell.

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Summary: My Opinion of No Exit
Review: The way I would rate the play No Exit is with two thumbs up. There are some key points about this play that make it most interesting for me. One is the overall mystery of death, secondly is the many endless theories about the after life: whether or not it is "Heaven" or "Hell". Also the entire plot of this play made it chilling that you wanted to turn to the next page but unsure of what might be on the other side. And that is one thing that kept me reading.

Jean-Paul Sartre's opinion of what comes after death is what most of us believe it is. That there is life after death. Most of us know "hell" to be a place where there is a eternity of fiery suffering. But "hell" in No Exit is a different kind of a life long suffering. The characters are suffering by being with people that absolutely hate each other. These characters where very strange because after reading what their lives were like on earth you begin to wonder if this is enough suffering for them. However, I can say that this is the most breathtaking story I've ever read. I found it factual in some parts and enjoyable in other parts. I would highly recommend this to everyone who is interested in reading something that will keep them alive.

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Summary: Sartre implicates us all...
Review: These four plays by Sartre are all very different in style if not tone, but they all cut to the bone of meaning in delivering their sobering messages. The best play is also the most famous, No Exit, filled with brilliant language and dramatic fire. The situations and questions posed within aspeak directly to our age. Next, The Respectful Prostitute, which shows how funny existentialists can be, and how gut-wrenching comedy can be both funny and chilling. The Flies is a wonderfully inventive play that one can picture just by reading, with its harsh words, though in the guise of classical language, never missing a stab at the characters--or the audience. The weakest play, Dirty Hands, is still a compelling but rather cliched drama which is a little too ponderous for theatre, but dead on with its analysis of the human condition. Overall, a very worthwhile collection and a great introduction to Sartre, and existentialism.

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Summary: Good stuff
Review: This collection of plays is very good, and not just for the title piece. "No Exit," of course, is a famous work no one interested in existentialism is unfamiliar with. It is thought-provoking and interesting. "The Flies" communicates many of Sartre's ideas very well, particularly in the dialogue between Orestes and Zeus. The other two plays are also interesting and very effective.