Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Vintage Books USA
Date Published: 1955
ISBN-13:9780394700168ISBN:0394700163
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Light shelf wear. Crease front cover, top corner. Very small tear back cover, at middle. Trade PB. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 1955
ISBN-13:9780394700168ISBN:0394700163
Description: Acceptable. MAY HAVE COVER WEAR, SPINE CREASES, HIGHLIGHTING, UNDERLINING & PAGES YELLOWED FROM AGE. FASTER SERVICE FROM US! ! ! read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Vintage Books USA
Date Published: 1976
ISBN-13:9780394700168ISBN:0394700163
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Tight and square; text unmarked. Spine creased; pieces of surface missing from cover where price labels removed; corners bumped, edges chipped. Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Vintage Books USA
Date Published: 1955
ISBN-13:9780394700168ISBN:0394700163
Description: Fine. No dust jacket as issued. 1972 printing. No flaws with this title. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Vintage Books
Date Published: 1955
ISBN-13:9780394700168ISBN:0394700163
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Cover shows minor wear; name and date inside front cover; underlining and notes on some pages that does not obscure text, light tanning. Other plays: Dirty Hands, The Flies, The Respectful Prostitute read more
Description: Good. 0394700163 Vintage 1955 edition (w/ copyright 1976 update noted). Binding square and tight, no spine creasing. No creases. Pages clean and unmarked w/ age-tanning. Shelf/edge wear mostly in form of soiling of cover edges. Ships Immediately from CA. read more
Description: Very Good. 0394700163 Very good condition paperback, Vintage Books edition, 1955, mild shelf wear, 2 spine creases, text is clean and unmarked. Shop & Save With US. read more
Binding: Paper Back
Publisher: Random House, Incorporated, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1955
ISBN-13:9780394700168ISBN:0394700163
Description: Good + No Jacket. 4"X7" This paperback book has a white and color illustrated cover with blue and black lettering on the front and grey and black lettering on spine of the cover. 281 pages. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 1955-09-12
ISBN-13:9780394700168ISBN:0394700163
Description: Very Good. Binding is tight and square. Text is clean and bright. Number 23 on bottom of pages. Light wear. We recommend EXPEDITED MAIL for even faster delivery! read more
"I only read No Exit from this book but I thought it was brilliant. Sartre explains through this play that we ultimately define and live ourselves through others. It makes me think of tarzan, if one was raised by apes they would be an ape even though a human, but put that person in a room with other humans and the human condition remodels their behavior. Tarzan would live as an ape because he would live through those around him. We continue to grow as beings in our unique way because we continue to push our ideas of what it means or is supposed to mean to be a person, creating and recreating that idea to a point where it becomes our own hell."
"A brief one-act that seems much longer than it really is. Alternately horrible and funny, it's Sartre's take on Hell, which can be described as such: a small hotel room with no windows or mirrors, a door that is usually locked, and three couches. Three people - Garcin, Ines, and Estelle - are all brought to this room by what I can only guess is a bellboy. (I read this in French, so forgive any factual errors that I missed as a reult of that) Everyone keeps asking, "Where's the torturer?" because they know they're in Hell and are going to suffer. It's finally Ines who figures it out: "Il n'y a pas de torture physique, n'est-ce que pas? Et cependant, nous sommes en enfer...le bourreau, c'est chacun de nous pour les deux autres." Rough translation: "There's no phyisical torture, right? However, we're in Hell...each of us is the torturer for the other two." An even rougher translation: "Hell is other people." ("L'enfer, c'est les autres.")
At first, the other two resist this idea, and maintain that they can just ignore each other for the rest of eternity. That lasts about five seconds, and the merde quickly hits the fan, and we see just why these three people ended up being forced into a room together. Really interesting and thought-provoking, but maybe not something you should make your French students act out during class."
"To be fair, we only read No Exit. No one ever reads The Flies in high school English, though.
No Exit drove me, and I am sure, countless other 15-year-olds to discover that everything they believed could be boiled down to some kind of accessible existentialism. I never read any Nietzsche and I didn't get into any Camus until two years later, but the idea that we are all responsible for what we do- not a God who, if he existed, has abandoned us- and not taking responsibility is the worst sin anyone can commit? This spoke to a very deep and angsty part of me. I didn't know it at the time, but this play did so much for shaping my belief system and giving a language to what I felt. On some level, I am still a snotty 15 year old who feels like a fairly shallow reading of a pretty fantastic play can summarize this feeling that I have had for most of my life while still not requiring me to look any further. It's kind of all I needed."
"A wonderful, brief, entertaining play that's brilliantly misanthropic and hysterical all at the same time. Sartre coins the phrase, "Hell is other people" and this phrase, while also summing up a philosophy, ironically sums up the plot, as well.
Meet Garcin. He's dead. And in hell. And he's joined soon by Inez and Estelle. Both are also dead. And in hell. Garcin asks the valet (because hell has some services apparently) when the torturer will arrive. And thus the long joke of the drama begins: we don't need a torturer because we have each other!
The characters are wonderfully fleshed out and interesting. Although the drama is extremely brief, the characters feel real and developed, and as the drama progresses, the reader learns more about the reasons why each character is in hell and a little more of their personal story."
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