Sartre: Le Mur
Sartre, Jean-Paul / Redfern, W.
In this study of the short story collection, "Le Mur", Sartre is situated in the context of the 1930s and each story is analyzed in turn for its ideas and authorial standpoint. The focus is on the governing motifs of walls and rooms, the obsessive themes of bad faith and the interpersonal power struggles centring on the mutual hostility of gaze. Sartre's investigations embrace psychological aberrations, love and friendship and their impossibil...