‘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 . This is an unexpurgated edition translated from the French by Lloyd Alexander.
Author: Jean-Paul Sartre
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 01/17/1969
Series: New Directions Paperbook
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.37lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.37w x 0.44d
ISBN: 9780811201902
Language: English
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