No Exit and The Flies
Jean-Paul Sartre
(Translated by Stuart Gilbert)
Read January 2009
Copy purchased at Half Price Books, Highland Park, Saint Paul
Essay written Saturnday, February 28th, 2009
I bought this book for a dime several years ago. It's a small paperback with four plays. At this time I only read two of them. I was just in a play mood. Since this book cost a dime, that means these plays cost me 2.5¢ apiece to read.
No Exit was good. Good existential fun. I need to read more Sartre. The Flies, even though I'm familiar with the story of Agamemnon and Orestes and the Furies and all that (I've read Aeschylus' "The Oresteia"), was laborious. I know, I know, modern interpretation, twentieth-century vision, blah blah blah. I was bored.
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