About “Huis Clos”

No Exit is a 1944 existentialist French play by Jean-Paul Sartre, first performed at the Theatre du Vieux-Colombier in May 1944. It depicts an afterlife in which three deceased characters are locked into a room together for eternity as punishment. It is the source of Sartre's famous phrase "L'enfer, c'est les autres" ("Hell is other people"), tied to his ideas about the look and the ontological struggle of being seen as an object by another consciousness. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)

Book details

Published
1962
Latest edition
2016 · ISBN 9781138138780
ISBN
9781138138780
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Huis Clos 2016 9781138138780 Buy on Amazon
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Frequently asked questions

How many pages is Huis Clos?

Huis Clos by Jean-Paul Sartre has 116 pages.

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