An analysis of Jean-Paul Sartre's plays in Théâtre complet / Adrian van den Hoven.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Van den Hoven, Adrian, 1939- author.

Contributor:

Taylor & Francis eBooks

Series:

Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980--Criticism and interpretation.

Sartre, Jean-Paul.

French drama--20th century--History and criticism.

French drama.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 172 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2025.

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 Le pari (The wager)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 09, 2024).

Other Format:

Print version: Van den Hoven, Adrian, 1939- Analysis of Jean-Paul Sartre's plays in Théâtre complet

ISBN:

9781003498971

1003498973

9781040100820

1040100821

Publisher Number:

40032440141

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