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The Wall: (Intimacy) and Other Stories

By Jean-Paul Sartre & Lloyd Alexander
The Wall: (Intimacy) and Other Stories by Jean-Paul Sartre & Lloyd Alexander digital book - Fable

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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.

122 Reviews

3.5
“strong collection of stories all floating around existentialism and sense of identity. "The wall" was very impactful, depicting an interesting perspective towards impendnig death, though-provoking "The room" was interesting too, i recommend it strongly cause its really up to date, trying to show the difference and perspecitves of being different in society, also solitude of that and struggles "Herostrates" amazing, dostoyevski style, murderous searching of identity "The childhood of a leader" longer study of existential struggles, searching for your reason and identity, fascism”
Thinking Face“It might have been the translation, but this was impossible to read. I couldn't pay attention for more than a few sentences. I also feel like it lacked depth or growth and dragged on. Generally uninteresting which is sad, because as a lover of Camus, I was looking forward to Sartre. I might just have to start with a different text.”
“Set during the Spanish Civil War, we follow the short story of a handful of captured men waiting for their execution. As time passes, the prisoners begin the process of dehumanization, falling further and further away what we call human. After all, what makes us human if not the things we live for. But, well, when you're set to die the next morning there's nothing to really live for. A painfully graphic and visceral depiction of the experience of one who has nothing to live for anymore.”
“Lucky are the people who do not have to face an inevitable event this way.”

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