The Wall by Jean-Paul Sartre

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Original Title: The Wall

ISBN: 184391400X
ISBN13: 9781843914006
Autor: Jean-Paul Sartre
Rating: 4.3 of 5 stars (3755) counts
Original Format: , 183 pages
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Published: April 2005 / by Hesperus Press / (first published 1939)
Language: English
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Philosophy- 110 users
Fiction- 101 users
Short Stories- 88 users
Cultural >France- 62 users
Classics- 53 users
European Literature >French Literature- 39 users

Description:

'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.

About Author:

Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre, normally known simply as Jean-Paul Sartre, was a French
existentialist philosopher and pioneer, dramatist and screenwriter, novelist and critic. He was a
leading figure in 20th century French philosophy.
He declined the award of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his work which, rich in ideas and
filled with the spirit of freedom and the quest for truth, has exerted a far-reaching influence on our
age."
In the years around the time of his death, however, existentialism declined in French philosophy
and was overtaken by structuralism, represented by Levi-Strauss and, one of Sartre's detractors,
Michel Foucault.

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- The Wall (Intimacy) and Other Stories

- Le mur (Mass Market Paperback)

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- No Exit

- Existentialism Is a Humanism

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Mar 15, 2007

Alex
Rated it: really liked it
Recommends it for:
People who appreciate booty/Sartrean existentialism
You gotta love Sartre's sexy objectification of women. I totally think Sartre was an ass man.
Exempli gratia:
"Her tail is small, yes, a lot smaller than mine, but you can see more of it. It's all around, under her
thin back, it fills the skirt, you'd think it was poured in, and besides it jiggles."
Hell is other people... other people who can't appreciate a nice jiggling booty!
If Sartre was alive today, I'm sure he'd give that comment a high five or whatever the French
existensialist equivalent
You gotta love Sartre's sexy objectification of women. I totally think Sartre was an ass man.
Exempli gratia:
"Her tail is small, yes, a lot smaller than mine, but you can see more of it. It's all around, under her
thin back, it fills the skirt, you'd think it was poured in, and besides it jiggles."
Hell is other people... other people who can't appreciate a nice jiggling booty!
If Sartre was alive today, I'm sure he'd give that comment a high five or whatever the French
existensialist equivalent of that is (maybe a quiet snooty glare?)
In fact, how can you appreciate someone who is perhaps the biggest influence on rap music in this
century, still 20 years after his death? Allow me to demonstrate:
The first example I have occured in 2005, with a song stemming from a famous Sartre quote from
Nausea (and the idea that he was an ass man):
Sartre: "I exist. It's sweet, so sweet, so slow."
Juvenile:
"Uh I like it like that \
she working that back \
I don't know how to act \
Slow motion for me\
slow motion for me\
slow motion for me\
Move it slow motion for me."
Sweet slow motion indeed. That's why I exist!
To further belabor the point, we have the well known example from Lil Jon and the Eastide Boys's
hit with the following lyrics:
"Let me see you get low\
you scared you scared \
Drop dat ass to the floor \
you scared you scared \
Let me see you get low \
you scared you scared \
Albert Camus and Jean Paul Sartre differed in view of \
the abserd the abserd"
Unfortunently, the rap community felt that this rift between Camus and Sartre would result in yet
another (possibly violent) dichotomizing of the rap world. To avoid this, the final lyics were
changed, altering the course of the song tremendously, also resulting in the removal of 20 other
verses leaving only the tale of a shorty getting krunk thus avoiding any deep philosophical
discussion.
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Mohsen Faghfour Maghrebi

Dude you are high as hell :D i like it

Oct 27, 2015 11:04AM

Rand
#fActs

Dec 15, 2015 08:31AM