Les Mains Sales

by Jean-Paul Sartre, Walter Redfern (Editor)

Overview

The full French text of Sartre's first full-length play is accompanied by French-English vocabulary. Notes and a detailed introduction in English put the work in its social and historical context.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415039352
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/15/1985
Series:	Routledge Foreign Literature Classics
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	212
Product dimensions:	5.06(w) x 7.81(h) x (d)

About the Author

Jean-Paul Sartre, Walter D. Redfern, Professor of Frech University of Reading.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION How Les Mains sales was received; Sartre and the theatre; Existentialism and the theatre; The historical frame; Characters: Hugo, Hoedere, Louis, the guards, Olga, Jessica; Possible interpretations of the murder; Structure and style; Conclusion NOTES TO THE INTRODUCTION; LES MAINS SALES; NOTES