by Jean-Paul Sartre · Rowohlt Taschenbuch · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783499157691
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«Geschlossene Gesellschaft» is Jean-Paul Sartre's existentialist play, published by Rowohlt Taschenbuch in paperback (80 pages, in German).
Three strangers who have just died wake up together in a hotel room closed for all eternity. There is no fire or executioners: the sentence is to live together without escape with the gaze and judgment of others, a central idea of Sartrean existentialism.
Original work: «Huis clos» (1944); German translation by Traugott König. Volume «Theaterstücke 3» of the series «Gesammelte Werke in Einzelausgaben» (rororo). It bears the subtitle «Stück in einem Akt».
Suitable as school reading and for those interested in existentialist philosophy, twentieth-century theatre and French literature.
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."
