Varoluşçuluk'un babası sayılan Jean-Paul Sartre(1905-1980), Aydınlanma Çağı'ndan bu yana çağının tanığı ve bilinci olabilmiş, edebiyata, felsefeye,...
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Dec 17, 2009
Pamela
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Oh you know those whacky existentialists . . . just a typical beach read, really. Early chick-lit. Love the stories, they are colorful and fairly realistic in the way they depict the ridiculous, repetitive or futile behaviors people exhibit (other peeps, not me, of course). I'm guessing that Sartre must have been hella good times at cocktail parties. Wonder who would have won in a death match between Jean-Paul, Al Camus and lil' Freddie Nietzsche? (I'm betting Nietzsche, he was uber-efficient.)
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Feb 06, 2012
ميّ أحمد
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...الكتاب مهدى لأولغا كوزاكيفتش وهي إحدى طالبات سيمون دو بوفوار
يحوي الكتاب خمسة قصص هي الجدار (وهي القصة الأكثر شهرة ) , الغرفة ,
أروسترات , حبل الوريد و تسمى أيضا بالحميمية وأخيرا طفولة قائد التي
كانت أولى الملاحظات التي قفزت إلى ذهني بعد أن قرأت القصص الثلاث الأولى هي الحالات الغريبة التي وضع فيها سارتر شخصياته والقلق الذي يعتريها
أعني أنه كان يضع مأزقا لبطل القصة أحيانا يكون عنيفا أو محرجا أو مرعبا
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Dec 16, 2009
Alex
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You gotta love Sartre's sexy objectification of women. I totally think Sartre was an ass man. Exempli gratia:
"Her tail is small, yes, a lot smaller than mine, but you can see more of it. It's all around, under her thin back, it fills the skirt, you'd think it was poured in, and besides it jiggles."
Hell is other people... other people who can't appreciate a nice jiggling booty!
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"Her tail is small, yes, a lot smaller than mine, but you can see more of it. It's all around, under her thin back, it fills the skirt, you'd think it was poured in, and besides it jiggles."
Hell is other people... other people who can't appreciate a nice jiggling booty!
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Oct 18, 2009
Alexei
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If all five short stories, included in this book, have such level of mastery and strength as titular story this would be one of the most splendid examples of literature. But, sadly, this collection of short stories is rather inconsistent. "The Wall" itself ia a haunting travel into inner life and experience of a man condemned to death, brilliant in its depiction of the smallest impulses of human psyche in this extreme (of course, borderline in existentialist meaning) situation and stri
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Aug 25, 2011
Howard
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This is a collection of 5 short stories by this existential author in the late 1940s. I think the book has also gone under the title "Intimacy", being the first story.
Being short I'll not give too much detail but are as follows:
Intimacy: Lulu is married to Henri and her friend Rirette thinks she should leave him. Why might she stay?
The Wall: Pablo, a Spanish revolutionary has been caught and threatened with firing squad. His dialogue with his fell More...
Being short I'll not give too much detail but are as follows:
Intimacy: Lulu is married to Henri and her friend Rirette thinks she should leave him. Why might she stay?
The Wall: Pablo, a Spanish revolutionary has been caught and threatened with firing squad. His dialogue with his fell More...
Aug 20, 2010
Joe
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There's a reason that Sartre *is* existentialism. He approaches his subject's angst with a patience and dread that not even Camus can match. The title story is "The Stranger" in 20 pages, with a real ending. The final novella accurately captures the tumultuous youth of an intellectual brute. And the stories in-between capture love, rage, and pity at their ugliest, while at the same time painting them in a disturbingly human light of reason.
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Nov 21, 2009
Anna
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I tried to read 'the age of reason' long time ago. I give up because its so hard to digest. this book contains his short stories, maybe I will survive this, hehe
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he has good techniques, he blends naturally into another character, never can I find him acting like he knows everything, like any other novelist. I read the stories and find it stressing and gloomy. This is a high class art, maybe too classy for me, it didn't attract my emotion. Its like when you like your mom' More...
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he has good techniques, he blends naturally into another character, never can I find him acting like he knows everything, like any other novelist. I read the stories and find it stressing and gloomy. This is a high class art, maybe too classy for me, it didn't attract my emotion. Its like when you like your mom' More...
Sep 05, 2009
Hans
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What happens to one that is taunted with death and by death? Before dying does the humanity of a person die first? To be tormented by time contemplating one's own end.
Having read accounts of War Veterans who knew death personally, something I have heard often is the comment when they lost a close comrade "something within me died too". Survivor's guilt, where life continues but is no longer enjoyable. Like trying to eat delicious food that has lost all flavor. The fin More...
Having read accounts of War Veterans who knew death personally, something I have heard often is the comment when they lost a close comrade "something within me died too". Survivor's guilt, where life continues but is no longer enjoyable. Like trying to eat delicious food that has lost all flavor. The fin More...
Apr 06, 2009
Rosey
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Haunting. I think I may have just said that about "Night" as well, but this is haunting in a very different way and I don't care if you think I'm redundant.
The first three stories in this collection were amazing and stuck with me. "The Room" and "Erostratus" in particular were so fascinating to me, and disturbing yet oddly comforting, as if I know these characters in myself (don't worry (if you have read Erostratus) it's not that i've suddenly been overcome w More...
The first three stories in this collection were amazing and stuck with me. "The Room" and "Erostratus" in particular were so fascinating to me, and disturbing yet oddly comforting, as if I know these characters in myself (don't worry (if you have read Erostratus) it's not that i've suddenly been overcome w More...
Jun 16, 2008
Ririenz
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KUMCER – DINDING ( Le Mur )
Penulis : Jean-Paul Sarte
Penerjemah : Dwi Margo Yuwono, Alexandra Wrestirhin, Rini Kusumawati
Penerbit : Jendela ( Cetakan I, 2000 )
Sarte adalah filsuf dan sastrawan Prancis paling populer di Eropa dan banyak menyumbangkan karya dan gagasan dibidang sastra, sosial, budaya dan politik. Dari karya2nya, pemikiran2nya jg gagasan2nya membuat Sarte dikenal sbg filsuf yg beraliran eksistensialisme dan kebebasan. Menurut Sarte manusia adalah kebeb More...
Penulis : Jean-Paul Sarte
Penerjemah : Dwi Margo Yuwono, Alexandra Wrestirhin, Rini Kusumawati
Penerbit : Jendela ( Cetakan I, 2000 )
Sarte adalah filsuf dan sastrawan Prancis paling populer di Eropa dan banyak menyumbangkan karya dan gagasan dibidang sastra, sosial, budaya dan politik. Dari karya2nya, pemikiran2nya jg gagasan2nya membuat Sarte dikenal sbg filsuf yg beraliran eksistensialisme dan kebebasan. Menurut Sarte manusia adalah kebeb More...
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Feb 27, 2011
Ariel
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It had been a while since I'd read Sartre and I picked the volume up over others because it was short stories, well suited to sitting at the allergist's for half and hour at a time and then moving on with my life. I had not anticipated the resonance that Sartre still had for me, however. The title story was interesting, but less than engaging, but as the book went on they got more real for me. Sartre is a master of showing one how subjective experience can be, how one's feelings towards people
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Jun 16, 2008
J
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The first story in this book is really the best one out of the bunch. The final story is the worst, almost like the book was designed as a progression with decreasing quality as you move along.
This is not to say that the style or the writing got any worse particularly. Sartre's fiction style isn't any great shakes, though his stories are always interesting. The last story though "Childhood of a Leader" is just so thick with period references to France between the two World More...
This is not to say that the style or the writing got any worse particularly. Sartre's fiction style isn't any great shakes, though his stories are always interesting. The last story though "Childhood of a Leader" is just so thick with period references to France between the two World More...
Nov 17, 2010
Mikimara
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sartre è e resta uno dei miei preferiti, con le sue lucide analisi, il suo distaccato cinismo, il suo rifiuto del buonismo di maniera. è un libro di racconti in cui il distacco, la diversità, la solitudine la fanno da padrone. durante la sua lettura un ghigno si alterna ad un amorale annuire. per molti tratti ricorda camus, sia per tematiche che per stile.
Oct 12, 2009
Tara
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Wow the first two stories are amazing. i got hung up on the 4th (of 5) stories, "Intimacy." It annoyed me so much i couldn't read it. I really couldn't stand it, it reminded me of Anais Nin or something, bleah. But the first 2 stories are unforgettable, maybe two of the best stories I have ever read.
Oct 11, 2010
Kati
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the first two stories are good, but i'm probably not going to continue with the rest. the fourth story in particular, "intimacy", is holding me up. i'm not a big fan of short story collections to begin with, though. i like to have one really long, epic story (i can blame gone with the wind for this)
Apr 03, 2011
kissmyshades
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On rereading: The Wall is still one of the most affecting short stories I've ever read; The Room is a surprisingly dark and great story about a woman and her insane husband; Erostratus makes me wonder if Houllebecq more or less just copied that and 'Nausea' (from what I remember of that - I read the Age of Reason trilogy too long ago for this to be a fair evaluation) in 'The Elementary Particles' but isn't particularly interesting in itself; Intimacy was a good concept but not a irritatingly mes
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May 05, 2008
William
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You never, ever do what you want. You just get swept away.
This is a decent collection of Sartre's short fiction - each of the five pieces differ in style and length, enough so to make them all worth reading. The Childhood of a Leader and The Bedroom are the two weakest works, but what they lack in quality, the other three (The Wall, Herostratus and Intimacy) more than make up for. Sartre the novelist is often overlooked in favour of Sartre the philosopher, but at the end of the day, More...
This is a decent collection of Sartre's short fiction - each of the five pieces differ in style and length, enough so to make them all worth reading. The Childhood of a Leader and The Bedroom are the two weakest works, but what they lack in quality, the other three (The Wall, Herostratus and Intimacy) more than make up for. Sartre the novelist is often overlooked in favour of Sartre the philosopher, but at the end of the day, More...
Sep 23, 2011
Takoinche
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Algunos cuentos como el de Intimidad medio flojones por momentos. Algunos otros bastante buenos.
El final de La infancia de un jefe me tocó <3
La Náusea es mucho mejor, pero esto vale la pena.
El final de La infancia de un jefe me tocó <3
La Náusea es mucho mejor, pero esto vale la pena.
Nov 10, 2010
Aistė
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'Matai,- tarė Berliakas Liusjenui, - tikrosios karo aukos esame mes.' Tokia buvo ir Liusjeno nuomonė, todėl jie sutarė, kad abu priklausys prarastajai kartai.' (lol)n, vien už šitą ir pasišaipymą iš psichoanalizės, o ir šiaip įdomu
Dec 28, 2011
Angela
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El muro está compuesto por cinco relatos en los que se puede apreciar un elemento en común: todos y cada uno de los personajes se ven condicionados a la hora de actuar por la sociedad y lo que ésta exige de ellos. A través de las cinco historias, Sartre navega entre los pensamientos de sus protagonistas, sacando a relucir sus reflexiones más íntimas. En definitiva, una delicia para quien le guste el tipo de novela psicológica. Si tuviese que elegir uno como mi favorito, creo que me quedaría con
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May 05, 2009
Ian
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Great short story about the a fictional episode in the Spanish civil war...what happens when you realize you are going to die...how it changes your outlook.....
Jan 28, 2012
DayenLeah
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4 stars, mainly for the first two stories, "The Wall" and "The Room".
The other three short stories were good as well, but these were the ones which really made me think.
The other three short stories were good as well, but these were the ones which really made me think.
May 15, 2010
Ilia
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خود داستان دیوار عالی بود. انتخاب این داستانا برای این مجموعه از طرف هدایت هم عجیب و هم جالب بود. مثلا دو تا داستان به شدت نمادین از کافکا، یا داستان آخر (کور و برادرش) که روحیه اش مث بقیه داستانای مجموعه نیست.
Sep 04, 2009
Ross
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This has basically everything you could want in five short stories and it's better than almost any five stories you could possibly read anywhere. The language is way more seductive and quietly deranged than I ever would have expected...
Sep 12, 2009
Adam
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The first short story that bears the title of the collection is easily the best short story I've ever read.
Nov 19, 2008
K
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Jean-Paul Sartre has never been one to give in to censorship or leave his political beliefs at the door; and it's precisely this thorough sense of integrity that seeps through The Wall, a short story following three men in the night before their execution for rebellion. Exploring the dark corners of the human mind and soul, conflicting survival with ideological imperatives, not afraid of being judgmental, Sartre is forcing everyone to look at themselves in the mirror and wonder who would die in
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Apr 10, 2008
Collin
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Mar 13, 2009
Christophe
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Contient Le Mur - La chambre - Erostrate - Intimité - L'enfance d'un chef.
