No Exit and Three Other Plays

by Jean-Paul Sartre

First published 1945

Four plays from the father of existentialism. In "No Exit", three damned souls discover their personal hells are other people. In "The Flies", the Orestes myth is reworked as a young man confronts the guilt of his family's past. A professor must choose between theory and action in "Dirty Hands". And in "The Respectful Prostitute", a woman risks her life to expose American racism. Sartre's incisive, unsettling works plumb the depths of the human condition.

Genres: drama, philosophy, 20th-century

Vibes: dark, intimate, thought-provoking

Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, moral-dilemma

281 pages · Paperback · Vintage

Content warnings: violence

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