# Huis Clos and Other Plays

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- Authors: [Sartre](https://www.bookquiver.com/jean-paul-sartre)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2000-08-31

## Description

These three plays, diverse in subject but thematically coherent, illuminate one of Sartre's major philosophical concerns: the struggle to live and act freely in a complex and constricting world. Lucifer and the Lord , Sartre's favourite among his plays, explores this theme in depth, dealing in the process with fundamental questions of faith and disillusionment; in Huis Clos - arguably Sartre's most important play - he contends that 'Hell is other people', and details the afterlife of three souls trapped together in locked room and the torments that they inflict on each other; while The Respectable Prostitute , set in the Deep South of America, is concerned with racism, subjugation and the demands of conscience.

## Editions

### Huis Clos and Other Plays

- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4118-455-5
- Pages: 224
- Published: 2000-08-31
- Language: en_GB