by Jean-Paul Sartre · Rowohlt TB-V., Rnb. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783499115691
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«Die Mauer» is a collection of short stories by Jean-Paul Sartre, published by Rowohlt TB-V., Rnb. in paperback (153 pages, in German).
Three political prisoners await their execution in the story that opens the book; the arrival of dawn and the gaze of a doctor turn the wait into a psychological passage toward death. The rest of the volume brings together four more stories in which Sartre explores anguish, freedom, and responsibility in extreme situations.
The French original, Le Mur, was published in 1939; this German edition is from 1973.
For readers interested in existentialism and twentieth-century short fiction who want to read Sartre in German.
Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic, considered a leading figure in 20th-century French philosophy and Marxism. Sartre was one of the key figures in the philosophy of existentialism. His work has influenced sociology, critical theory, post-colonial theory, and literary studies. He was awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature despite attempting to refuse it, saying that he always declined official honors and that "a writer should not allow himself to be turned into an institution."
