![]() ![]() Scholar Robert Solomon has called No Exit “one of philosophy’s most profound contributions to the theater,” while Irish critic Vivien Mercier has suggested that all of Samuel Beckett’s major plays, and by extension the theater of the absurd, ultimately derive from it. Of his nine plays No Exit is centrally important both as a crucial text applying the philosophical precepts that dominated the post–World War II era and as a formulation of a new kind of drama that significantly influenced the theater in the second half of the 20th century. Jean-Paul Sartre, Preface to the Deutsche Gramaphon recording of No ExitĪlthough drama was only a small part of Jean-Paul Sartre’s remarkable oeuvre that included the central texts of French existentialism-the philosophical movement that he named and spearheaded-in the forms of novels, essays, and an almost continual stream of articles, Sartre is unique among philosophers in illustrating his ideas in literary works. ![]() And if people do not break out, they stay there of their own free will. Whatever the circle of hell in which we live, I think we are free to break out of it. ![]() the importance of changing our acts by other acts. In fact, since we are alive, I wanted to demonstrate, through the absurd, the importance for us of liberty, i.e. ![]() It is a sort of living death to be surrounded by the ceaseless concern for judgments and action that one does not even desire to change. ![]()
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