Jean Paul Sartre - No Exit and Three Other Plays

Pros: Interesting, funny at times, first I've read in this genre, concise, effective
Cons: A bit short, have to dig deep for the under layers of meaning

Everyone pictures hell as a fire-ridden deep pit of despair. Maybe it is like that, maybe it isn't. In John Paul Sartre's play No Exit hell is argued as mental torture, instead of physical torture. The well-known existentialist Sartre has decided...

Pros: An Existentialist Classic
Cons: None

In my epinion review of Beckett's Waiting for Godot, I called that work existentialism's Trojan Horse, and I called Sartre's play, No Exit, existentialism's Great Abyss. I'll stand by that. In this play, Sartre distills the...

Pros: Great ideas, sly wit, dread, philosophically beautiful.
Cons: Much too short.

Jean-Paul Sartre is best known for the philosophical work Being and Nothingness, and the novel Nausea. He was one of the leading exponents of the existentialist movement. Sartre remains better known that other existentialists like...

Pros: Humor, well written all around
Cons: other plays are only ok, compared to No Exit

The French existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre was not primarily a playwright, focusing mainly on novels and philosophical essays, but No Exit has become well known for its biting humor and insight. Sartre chooses to deal with the standard notion of Hell...

Pros: interesting plot, hell sounds interesting too
Cons: you really have to think

In Sartre's "No Exit", each of the three characters are trying to come to terms with the hand that fate dealt them. In particular, Garcin desperately wants to escape from his present situation and return to the real world; Estelle and Inez are...