No Exit and Three Other Plays (Hardcover)

from Hagelstein

The title play is about the hell we create for each other, a brilliant play. The Flies has a great quote: "The bane of gods and kings. The bitterness of knowing men are free." Dirty hands is about revolutionaries and their motives. "It is the well-behaved children, madam, that make the most formi...

from NielsenGW

Review just for "No Exit": Jean-Paul Sartre's play "No Exit" is an interesting look at human interactions when nothing else can distract them. The play involves three people, valeted into a room in Hell one at a time, and then coming to grips with what exactly Hell means. Sartre's famous quote-"H...

from villemezbrown

"No Exit" and "The Flies" really live up to their reputations. Nice and bleak, but wholly engaging. "Dirty Hands" and "The Respectful Prostitute," on the other hand, were okay, but most of the characters annoyed me so much I didn't really care when they reached their shock endings.I read this bec...

from wrmjr66

{Some Spoilers below} While Jean Paul Sartre is probably better known as an existentialist philosopher, his reputation as a playwright and novelist was very good during his lifetime (he refused the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1964). "No Exit" is his most famous play, and justifiably so. It is a...

from ridgehardy

Every play was magnificent. Gripping, psychologically scathing, it breathes life.