by Jean-Paul Sartre · Rowohlt Taschenbuch · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783499124853
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«Die schmutzigen Hände» is the play in seven scenes by Jean-Paul Sartre, published by Rowohlt Taschenbuch in paperback (176 pages, in German).
Written in 1948, the play contrasts moral idealism with political pragmatism. In an imaginary Central European country, Hugo, a young bourgeois intellectual, joins a communist party and becomes secretary to Hoederer, a leader accused of treason by his comrades. Sartre interrogates political violence and individual responsibility.
Original title in French: «Les Mains sales», known in English as «Dirty Hands»; German translation by Eva Groepler; rororo Taschenbücher series (no. 12485).
Of interest to readers of theatre, philosophy and politics, especially those wanting to explore Sartre's thought on stage.
Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic, considered a leading figure in 20th-century French philosophy and Marxism. Sartre was one of the key figures in the philosophy of existentialism. His work has influenced sociology, critical theory, post-colonial theory, and literary studies. He was awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature despite attempting to refuse it, saying that he always declined official honors and that "a writer should not allow himself to be turned into an institution."
