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Original Title:	Le Mur
ISBN:	184391400X (ISBN13: 9781843914006)
Edition Language:	English

The Wall

Jean-Paul Sartre

Paperback | Pages: 183 pages

Rating: 4.08 | 19945 Users | 634 Reviews

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Title	:	The Wall
Author	:	Jean-Paul Sartre
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 183 pages
Published	:	April 2005 by Hesperus Press (first published 1939)
Categories	:	Philosophy. Fiction. Short Stories. Classics. Cultural. France. European Literature. French Literature. Literature

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'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.

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3.75 starsI first read and found his memoir entitled Words (Penguin, 2000) in 2014 tolerably enjoyable due to my unfamiliarity with his writing style, that is, page after page of lengthy narratives with few dialogs. Another reason is that I have regarded him and his works with awe and trepidation since, as a matter of course, he has been eminently acclaimed as one of the great philosophers in the 20th century (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Pa...). As for me, I have merely been a common

Such a philosopher of existentialism, I was thrown into an existential crisis after screwing the short story "The wall" from the namesake book. what I got from it is that We are not allowed to be clean, whether dead or alive.

If all five short stories, included in this book, have such level of mastery and strength as titular story this would be one of the most splendid examples of literature. But, sadly, this collection of short stories is rather inconsistent. "The Wall" itself ia a haunting travel into inner life and experience of a man condemned to death, brilliant in its depiction of the smallest impulses of human psyche in this extreme (of course, borderline in existentialist meaning) situation and striking in

I somehow dislike Sartre's novels. I did like his Nausée, but the short stories in Le Mur are rather dull and boring. He works out his existentialist ideas into real-world situations. All stories are concerned with identity, responsibility, freedom, existence, living in bad faith with yourself and others. But I guess this is not really my cup of tea.

How will you react when death stares you in your face? The everyday struggles of life, which were assumed to go on till eternity suddenly seem futile and the angst against one's own existence, the 'whys' of human behavior intrigue more than ever! The Wall explores all the human emotions, relationships and quest for achievement with the lens of absurdity as the human life stands on the threshold to embrace death!

If I had to pick a single common theme in the five short stories compiled in this book it would have to be self-actualization. Of course Sartre's self-actualization not only differs from the eastern Atman and Buddhi, it damn near opposes them. Each short story portrays the protagonist's confrontation with the utter absurdity of life; and each protagonist refuses the prepackaged gift-wrapped souls that they've been handed through choosing a divergent path of their own. Some through wreaking

Each of the pieces in this collection of short fiction has much to recommend it, but the final novella "Childhood of a Leader" stands out as one of finest novellas I've ever read. Even though the title story "The Wall" is considerably more famous, "Childhood of a Leader" is more ambitious and more groundbreaking. Written in the 1930s, this piece explores gender, class, sexuality, homo-eroticism, antisemitism, social-constructedness, and several key philosophical issues -- though it does all this