"An Analysis of all the Plays and Fragmentary Works in Jean-Paul Sartre's Théâtre complet is the first volume to propose a critical analysis of all of Jean-Paul Sartre's plays as published in the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, Paris, Gallimard, 2005. Viewing the plays in the context of Sartre's philosophy, his prose writings and works by other philosophers, novelists, and playwrights, this comprehensive volume is essential reading for students of French literature, theatre and existentialist philosophy"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Bariona : Sartre's first play features a Jewish village chief who saves the Christ child at his own peril
The flies and the Vichy regime. A bloody farce
No exit or bringing the dead back to life
Sartre's story "The wall", his play The victors and Kant's moral principle : "it is a duty to tell the truth" in a philosophical, literary and political context
Sartre's play The victors seen in the light of the scenario resistance, its preface : "A film for the post-war period" and The roads to freedom IV : the last chance. Collaboration, torture, and commitment
The changing fate of "the modern woman". Sartre's The respectful prostitute and Camus's stage adaptation Réquiem pour une nonne viewed in the light of Flaubert's Madame Bovary, Tolstoy's Anna Karenina and Faulkner's novels Sanctuary and Requiem for a nun (which Camus adapted for the stage)
Dirty hands and the unspoken truth
The devil and the good lord
demystifying feudalism, God, and proposing a new war strategy
Kean : from resentment of the aristocracy to an appreciation of meritocracy
Nekrassov
anticommunist capers in a pièce à clefs : Sartre takes aim at Beckett and Camus, and pokes fun at his own philosophy
Collusion : the skeleton in the closet in The condemned of Altona
The Trojan women and the theater of commitment
A discussion of Sartre's theatrical project entitled exercising damage control and the question of suicide, psychoanalysis and McCarthyism
Recurring themes and techniques in Sartre's theatrical project the wager.
ISBN
9781032800318 (hardcover)
1032800313 (hardcover)
9781032812748 (paperback)
1032812745 (paperback)
LCCN
2024014759
OCLC
1445425506
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