No Exit and Three Other Plays is an American collection of four of Jean-Paul Sartre's plays from the years of the German occupation and just after it, in which his philosophy of freedom and responsibility is worked out on the stage. Stuart Gilbert translated No Exit and The Flies, and Lionel Abel translated Dirty Hands and The Respectful Prostitute.
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Jean-Paul Sartre
About Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–1980) was a French philosopher, novelist and playwright, educated at the École Normale Supérieure, where he met his lifelong companion Simone de Beauvoir. After the novel Nausea (1938), he was taken prisoner in 1940, released in 1941, and published his philosophical treatise Being and Nothingness in 1943. His 1945 lecture Existentialism Is a Humanism made him the best-known voice of existentialism, and he founded the review Les Temps modernes. He declined the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1964.