Jean Paul Sartre

A French author.

Les Temps Modernes

Dirty Hands

Proletarian Party sends Hugo to kill Hoederer, whom he sees kissing his wife Jessica. Hugo kills him but then feels there was no reason

The Respectful Prostitute

senator’s son Fred get Lizzie to testify against innocent black as scapegoat for cousin Thomas

Nausea

historian Roquentin and wife Anny feel there is no reason for existing

The Wall

short stories, including The Wall [Spanish Civil War prisoner lies about location of his leader, but leader moves and he is correct]

The Roads to Freedom

3 novels: The Age of Reason [Mathieu], The Reprieve [September 1938 Munich Pact], Troubled Sleep [1940 fall of France]

The Flies

Orestes and The Tutor arrive in Argos, which is swarmed by flies after the death of Agamemnon. Electra curses a statue of Jupiter and wishes for Orestes. He introduces himself as Philebus. The Dead Man’s Day Ceremony occurs. Basically the purge but with death people. The flies become furies

No Exit

three characters (including the lesbian Ines and the coward Garcin) placed in a room while they wait for their eternal punishment. they talk and slowly realize that this is their torment. “Hell is other people”