Word: clos
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...group also has rights to Robert Briffault's translation of existentialist Jean Paul Sartre's "Huis Clos." The three-character play was put on in London last season under the title "The Vicious Circle" and met with wide acclaim...
...occupation created a new theater public: people desperately needing escape were chained to Paris but cheated of the U.S. movies they had doted on. But their war experiences bred in them more serious tastes, which accounts for such recent highbrow hits as Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre's Huis Clos, Near-Existentialist Albert Camus' Caligula (headed for Broadway), T. S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral...
...movement has its bible, the abstruse 700-page L'Etre et le Néant (Being and Nothingness), which Philosopher Sartre published in 1943. Its literature includes Sartre's Huis Clos (ClosedDoors), a drama laid in Hell with an infanticide, Lesbian and a military deserter as its chief protagonists. The cult's foremost disciple is Authoress Simone de Beauvoir, who lives in the same hotel on the same floor as the master...
...says, "is of no importance in our philosophy. There is no communication between Him and us." Since God is at best irrelevant, Sartre holds, man is responsible solely to himself. "You are your life and nothing else," says a figure in Sartre's play Huis Clos. The author thinks he has capsuled his philosophy in that sentence...