Walter's review
No Exit and Three Other Plays by Jean-Paul Sartre
Of the plays presented in this book, my favorite by far is "The Flies". The imagery is powerful, viscerally grim and connects to the unconscious mind. Both times that I read this play (as a young man, and recently as a less young man), I had vivid nightmares of the bleeding statues and grim temples of the cursed city of Argos. Sartre transforms the classical tale of revenge (of Orestes seeking vengeance on his mother and her lover for the murder of his father) into an exposition of his existentialist philosophy. It's great, and you will learn more from this play than any of his essays.
