The Wall: (Intimacy) and Other Stories The Wall: (Intimacy) and Other Stories

The Wall: (Intimacy) and Other Stories

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Publisher Description

One of Sartre’s greatest existentialist works of fiction, The Wall contains the only five short stories he ever wrote. Set during the Spanish Civil War, the title story crystallizes the famous philosopher’s existentialism.

'The Wall', the lead story in this collection, introduces three political prisoners on the night prior to their execution. Through the gaze of an impartial doctor—seemingly there for the men's solace—their mental descent is charted in exquisite, often harrowing detail. And as the morning draws inexorably closer, the men cross the psychological wall between life and death, long before the first shot rings out. This brilliant snapshot of life in anguish is the perfect introduction to a collection of stories where the neurosis of the modern world is mirrored in the lives of the people that inhabit it . This is an unexpurgated edition translated from the French by Lloyd Alexander.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2010
July 27
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
144
Pages
PUBLISHER
New Directions
SELLER
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
SIZE
6.5
MB

Customer Reviews

shervah88 ,

The Wall

Is a haunting masterpiece

Factualvermin ,

The wall

The first story The Wall has to be one of the greatest pieces of short fiction that has ever been written, in my personal opinion.

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