Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Gallimard, Paris
Date Published: 1939
Description: Very Good- No Jacket. 8vo. Livre de Poche 33. 245pp. Has light wear. Spine creased. Plastic lamination on cover starting to peel at spine. Pages Browning. Internally Clean. Lang: French. Vols: 1, Wt: 1lbs. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Gallimard, Paris
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9782070368785ISBN:2070368785
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Highlighting/underlining. Lots of pencil annotation. Text in French. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. read more
Description: Good to Fair. 16mo-over 5�"-6�" tall. In French, reprint volume of short stories "Le Mur" (about a thief), "La Chambre", "Ersostrate", "Intimite", "L'Enfance d'un chef, " 245 p. Original publisher. A few pages have penciled notes. Pages yellowed. Bdg burgundy cloth. Wear at spine side edges, corners, spine ends. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Gallimard
Date Published: 1939
Description: Good. Ex-Library-Not Stated--222 pgs. Interior-nice overall condition. Cover has only light signs of wear. ex lib-Publish Place: Paris-Size: 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Gallimard
Date Published: 1939
Description: Good. Ex-Library-Not Stated--222 pgs. Interior-nice overall condition with light cracking and several pages lose. Cover has light signs of wear with taped spine. ex lib-Publish Place: Paris-Size: 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Gallimard
Date Published: 1939
Description: Used-Good. Ex-Library. Hardcover. We individually inspect and grade each book. Our books are professionally packaged and processed quickly. read more
Description: Gallimard, Paris; Cloth; Limited Edition; 241pp; Brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to front & spine, boards protected by clear plastic cover, red endpapers, previous owner's name to FFEP, clean, tight copy, VG+ condition. No. 5898 of limited edition. 20th volume of Collection Soleil series. Short stories. Text in French. read more
Description: Gallimard 1939. In French. Octavo, 241pp., maroon cloth with maroon leather spine and gilt printed mounted blue leather spine label. VG. read more
Description: Jette Jorgensen. Fair. No dust jacket as issued. Pencil notes on several pages of this booklet. Wrap is scuffed. Very readable. 70 p. booklet glued binding read more
Description: [1954]. (Hardcover) Very good plus in very good dust jacket. 245pp. The dust jacket has minor edgewear and chipping. Text in French Language. (Fiction) read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Editions Flammarion
Date Published: 28/12/1939
ISBN-13:9782070368785ISBN:2070368785
Description: Used-Good. Book in good or better condition. Dispatched same day from warehouse. Please email with any questions for quick response. read more
"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 its furious attempts to understand (or maybe to approximate) the meaning of nonexistence. It's simply a masterpiece of philosophical literature. This story hasn't lingering philosophical meditations of "Nausea", but with all its strictly "belletristic" characteristics it catches true essence of Sartre's existentialist philosophy even better. Then comes "The Room" which is a kind of morbid and dark tale of insanity, understanding and love. It is very interesting and by no means bad, but it lacks the depth of "The Wall". If that was the end of this short stories' collection my rating would be obviously five out of five. But this book has three more stories. "Erostratus" is not very convincing story of a preoccupied with sexual deviations of violent nature misanthrope intended to kill six random people, "Intimacy" is simply meaningless and awful history of sexual life of a frigid (not exactly - she can obtain sexual pleasure but only through masturbation) woman with her impotent husband and her doubts of whether must she leave her husband for her macho-like lover or not (yes, it can be mistaken for some kind of a strange chick-lit, and this sums it all up). The final short story ("The Childhood of a Leader") is better than these two, but the depiction of protagonist's thoughts as child is unpersuasive and even primitive. It has good moments and nontrivial thoughts thrown in but not enough to the point of being masterpiece. All in all, this book is a rather mixed bag but the fact that "The Room" obviously deserves a read and titular story is a work of genius secures this book's place in the "outstanding work of fiction" category."
"Wow the first two stories are amazing. i got hung up on the 4th (of 5) stories, "Intimacy." It annoyed me so much i couldn't read it. I really couldn't stand it, it reminded me of Anais Nin or something, bleah. But the first 2 stories are unforgettable, maybe two of the best stories I have ever read."
"What happens to one that is taunted with death and by death? Before dying does the humanity of a person die first? To be tormented by time contemplating one's own end.
Having read accounts of War Veterans who knew death personally, something I have heard often is the comment when they lost a close comrade "something within me died too". Survivor's guilt, where life continues but is no longer enjoyable. Like trying to eat delicious food that has lost all flavor. The final joke being how sad and ironic that in the end everyone sooner or later dies no matter how great or small they are."
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