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“The Wall was the first short story that ever captivated me - though I am not generally a fan of the existentialist movement but I would certainly recommend this book to anyone. ”
Parkles wrote this review Saturday, November 7 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“One of Jean-Paul Sartre's greatest existentialist works, The Wall is a book of short stories containing the eponymous story The Wall. The title story, Le mur coldly documents a story about prisoners who are condemned to death. The lack of emotion, the objectivity and the quiet disgust the narrator feels provide a running theme throughout many of Sartre's later stories. Sartre dedicated the book to Olga Kosakiewicz, a former student of Simone de Beauvoir, his lifelong companion.
Mehdi Ghasemi wrote this review Sunday, November 4 2007. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
(1939) A story about the Spanish Civil War (in Spanish, the Guerra Civil) that began July 17, 1936. It ended March 28, 1939, when Nationalist (known in Spanish as the Nacionales, elsewhere usually referred to as Fascists) troops, led by General Francisco Franco, overcame the Spanish Republic's forces and entered Madrid. The actual wall in the book, which was used by firing squads to execute prisoners, was representative of the knowledge of one's impenetrable and impending death. The protagonist, Pablo Ibbieta, along with two others in his cell, is sentenced to death. He is offered a way out if he betrays the whereabouts of his friend, Ramon Gris. Pablo refuses to until just before his death, when, seeing no harm in it, he gives the authorities some incorrect advice on where they could find Ramon Gris. It turns out that Ramon Gris moved from where Pablo believed him to be to where Pablo described him as being to the authorities. Thus Ramon Gris is shot and Pablo's life is, at least temporarily, spared.
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