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Original Title:	Huis clos
ISBN:	0573613052 (ISBN13: 9780573613050)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Garcin, Inès, Estelle
Setting:	Hell
Literary Awards:	New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Foreign Play (1947)

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Jean-Paul Sartre, the great French existentialist, displays his mastery of drama in NO EXIT, an unforgettable portrayal of hell.
The play is a depiction of the afterlife in which three deceased characters are punished by being locked into a room together for all eternity. It is the source of Sartre's especially famous and often misinterpreted quotation "L'enfer, c'est les autres" or "Hell is other people", a reference to Sartre's ideas about the Look and the perpetual ontological struggle of being caused to see oneself as an object in the world of another consciousness.

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Title	:	No Exit
Author	:	Jean-Paul Sartre
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 60 pages
Published	:	December 8th 2010 by Samuel French, Inc. (first published 1944)
Categories	:	Plays. Philosophy. Classics. Fiction. Drama. Cultural. France. Theatre

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HELL IS OTHER PEOPLE!! This book is a portrayal of hell by Mr. Sartre and he did a wonderful job!I don't know how to put my thought in words.. this book leaves a hole inside me.. I feel utterly empty yet so full of emotion! GARCIN: How about you? Aren't you afraid? INEZ: What would be the use? There was some point in being afraid before, while one still had hope. So, where there's a fear, there's a hope!Now, what is hell like??They said, hell is eternal fire, everlasting punishment, eternal

I read No Exit in English and French and saw the play while studying in France. In par with Sartre's idea of freedom, we create heaven and hell today, in this life on earth, by other's judgments of our acts. "Hell is the other", the phrase encapsulating heaven and hell, I found quite to the point. The 'other's' eyes pierce into my head, judging and shaping who I am, which I must escape, through my freedom to choose. No Exit is a simple and yet powerful play, which defined Petan's (northeren)

A single room with Second Empire furniture (no mirrors, no windows, three sofas, one paper knife, lights that won't go off), and no torturer. Accompanied by a mysterious valet, three incredulous characters (Inez Serrano, Estelle Rigault, and Joseph Garci) are escorted inside and are eternally locked away within its walls. At first, no one wants to admit what each has committed to deserve this damnation, but as the play progresses, they confess their crimes their deepest, darkest secrets exposed

This play gave me a wonderful idea for my next photography project and another view of hell. Every time I pick up something by existentialist authors, Im reminded of how much they closely border upon my thoughts on life. The play centers around three characters who are trapped in a room after being dead for several hours and begin conversing about each others idea of why theyve landed there which they think is essentially the hell. They bicker, fight and hate each other and we come to see how

There's no need for red-hot pokers. HELL IS-OTHER PEOPLE!

Hell is other people!That statement is beyond doubt the most famous of Satre's. However, it is only after one is acquainted with No Exit does one realise how grossly misinterpreted that statement is. In the context of this play, the statement is not misanthropic. It highlights a symptom of the condition that is life. Perhaps this quote, where Estelle peers into the eyes of Inez for the lack of a mirror, characterizes Satre's iconic quote better.Your scare me rather. My reflection in the glass

As a function of pure entertainment, Sartre's No Exit is brilliant. Ironically, Sartre uses almost-pure dialogue to "show not tell" the dilemma faced by Garcin, Inez, and Estelle, three "absentees" (a euphemism for "the dead") locked into a room, condemned to be together for eternity. Each has arrived here for different reasons, but all three possess qualities that bring out the worst in the others. Rather than the traditional hellish tropes of horned demons and hell-fire, this play evokes more