“The dead without burial” (1946) is a piercing play by Sartre about the times of the German occupation of France. The Second World War: Francois, Sorbier, Canoris, Henri and Lucy – resistance members who failed the task and fell into the hands of the Germans. They are kept in the attic, in handcuffs, and one at a time is taken down for interrogation. These five find themselves face to face with death; It is precisely that they all feel in front of imminent death – despair, humility, hatred of enemies and traitors, hope and thirst for living – turns out to be the main subject of attention of the writer.
“The Devil and the Lord God” (1951) – the play of Sartre, the action of which takes place in the Torn peasant war of Germany of the 16th century. However, historical events for the author are just a background on which the eternal issues of being are more clearly emerging: that there is good and evil and what is the freedom of the human personality.
Author
Sartre Jean-Pol
Translator
Yakushkina E., Breitburd G.
Publisher
AST, 2022
Series
Exclusive classics
16+
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