{"title":"Jean-Paul Sartre","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"nausea","title":"Nausea","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFirst published in 1938, Jean-Paul Sartre’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNausea\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLa Nausée\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e) is a landmark of twentieth-century French literature, a novel in which the ordinary world becomes suddenly strange and unsettling. Told through the diary of Antoine Roquentin, a solitary researcher living in the provincial town of Bouville, it follows his growing estrangement from familiar objects, social rituals and the reassuring stories people tell themselves about their lives. As Roquentin’s sense of reality begins to unravel, the simple fact of existence takes on an almost unbearable immediacy.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePart philosophical inquiry, part psychological portrait, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNausea\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e explores contingency, freedom, isolation and the fragile meanings we impose upon the world. Sartre gives abstract questions a vivid, unsettling physical presence, transforming a café, a park bench or the root of a chestnut tree into occasions for profound disquiet. The novel established many of the concerns that would define Sartre’s existentialist thought, while remaining a distinctive work of fiction: intimate, darkly comic and attentive to the strangeness of everyday life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the book\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness and dies by chance.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— Jean-Paul Sartre, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNausea\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNausea\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“What is striking in La Nausée is that remarkable fictional gifts and the play of the toughest and most lucid mind are at the same time both lavished and squandered.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— Albert Camus, “On Jean-Paul Sartre’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLa Nausée\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardner's EU","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64052041449802,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"no-exit-and-three-other-plays","title":"No Exit and Three Other Plays","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFirst published in English in 1946, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNo Exit and Three Other Plays\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e brings together four of Jean-Paul Sartre’s most compelling works for the theatre: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNo Exit\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Flies\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDirty Hands\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Respectful Prostitute\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. In \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNo Exit\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, three dead strangers find themselves imprisoned together in a room where the cruelties of self-knowledge and mutual judgement prove more enduring than physical torment. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Flies\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e reworks the ancient myth of Electra and Orestes into a drama of guilt, liberation and resistance, while \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDirty Hands\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e examines the uneasy relationship between political conviction and moral compromise. In \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Respectful Prostitute\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Sartre turns his attention to racism, power and the machinery of injustice in the American South.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWritten during the upheavals of the Second World War and its aftermath, these plays reveal Sartre’s gift for making philosophical questions immediate through confrontation, tension and sharply drawn dialogue. Across their very different settings, his characters struggle with freedom, responsibility and the consequences of their choices, exposing the contradictions between private conscience and public action. Together, the collection offers an illuminating introduction to Sartre’s existentialist drama, in which the stage becomes a testing ground for the moral and political dilemmas of modern life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the book\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Man is condemned to be free.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJean-Paul \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSartre, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eNo Exit and Three Other Plays\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNo Exit and Three Other Plays\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“No doubt Sartre is the most original and the most powerful of the contemporary French dramatists.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEric \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBentley, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Playwright as Thinker\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardner's EU","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64052162232650,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}]}],"url":"https:\/\/thelamppostparis.com\/collections\/jean-paul-sartre.oembed","provider":"The Lamp-Post Library \u0026 Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}