Editions
Library of Congress
Oldest English TranslationNo exit; a play in one act. Adapted from the French by Paul Bowles.
New York, French [1958]
ISBN: N/A
LOC: PQ2637.A82 H82 1958
Oldest Collection
No exit (Huis clos) a play in one act, & The flies (Les mouches) a play in three acts, by Jean-Paul Sartre. English versions by Stuart Gilbert.
New York, A. A. Knopf, 1947.
Book (Print, Microform, Electronic, etc.)
ISBN: N/A
LOC: PQ2637.A82 H82 1947
Newest Collection
Five plays / Jean-Paul Sartre ; illustrated by Robert Borja.
Franklin Center, PA. : Franklin Library, 1978.
ISBN: N/A
LOC: PQ2637.A82 A24
SHSU Newton Gresham Library
Newest CollectionNo exit (Huis clos) a play in one act, & The flies (Les mouches) a play in three acts
Translated by: Stuart Gilbert
New York, A. A. Knopf, 1947.
Call Number: PQ2637 .A82 A19 1947B
Retail
Original French Single PaperbackHuis Clos, suivi de Les Mouches (Folio) (French Edition)
Gallimard; GALLIMARD edition (February 18, 2000)ISBN: 2070368076
Amazon $13.19
Oldest Single Paperback
No Exit by Paul Bowles and Jean-Paul Sarte
Samuel French, Inc. (1958)
ISBN: 0573613052
Amazon $9.35
Collection
Amazon $9.35
Collection
No Exit and Three Other Plays by Jean-Paul Sartre and Stuart Gilbert (Oct 23, 1989)
ISBN: 0679725164
Vintage; Vintage International Edition/1st Print edition (October 23, 1989)Amazon $12.13
Acting Editions
A Play in One ActNo Exit
Samuel French $8.95
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There are 4 editions of No Exit listed on Goodreads.Background of Script
After coming back to Paris in May 1941, Sartre participated in the founding of the underground group Socialisme et Liberté with other writers de Beauvoir, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jean-Toussaint Desanti and his wife Dominique Desanti, Jean Kanapa, and École Normale students. In August Sartre and de Beauvoir went to the French Riviera seeking the support of André Gide and André Malraux. However, both Gide and Malraux were undecided, and this may have been the cause of Sartre's disappointment and discouragement. Socialisme et liberté soon dissolved and Sartre decided to write instead of being involved in active resistance. He then wrote Being and Nothingness, The Flies, and No Exit, none of which was censored by the Germans, and also contributed to both legal and illegal literary magazines.
Sartre wrote successfully in a number of literary modes and made major contributions to literary criticism and literary biography. His plays are richly symbolic and serve as a means of conveying his philosophy. The best-known, Huis-clos (No Exit), contains the famous line "L'enfer, c'est les autres," usually translated as "Hell is other people." Aside from the impact of Nausea, Sartre's major work of fiction was The Roads to Freedom trilogy which charts the progression of how World War II affected Sartre's ideas. In this way, Roads to Freedom presents a less theoretical and more practical approach to existentialism.
Despite their similarities as polemicists, novelists, adapters, and playwrights, Sartre's literary work has been counterposed, often pejoratively, to that of Camus in the popular imagination. In 1948 the Roman Catholic Church placed Sartre's oeuvre on the Index of prohibited books.
In 1975, when asked how he would like to be remembered, Sartre replied:
I would like [people] to remember Nausea, [my plays] No Exit and The Devil and the Good Lord, and then my two philosophical works, more particularly the second one, Critique of Dialectical Reason. Then my essay on Genet, Saint Genet.... If these are remembered, that would be quite an achievement, and I don't ask for more. As a man, if a certain Jean-Paul Sartre is remembered, I would like people to remember the milieu or historical situation in which I lived,... how I lived in it, in terms of all the aspirations which I tried to gather up within myself.
