The Wall by Jean-Paul Sartre is a collection of 5 short stories published in 1939. It contains four stories that had been published in various French journals, as well as the title story, "The Wall".
The Wall
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Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir was a French existentialist philosopher, writer, social theorist, and feminist activist. Though she did not consider herself a philosopher, nor was sh
The Wall (Sartre short story collection)
…considered one of the author's greatest existentialist works of fiction. Sartre dedicated the book to his companion Olga Kosakiewicz, a former student of Simone de Beauvoir. The eponymous story coldly depicts a situation in which prisoners are condemned to death. Written in 1939, the story is set in the Spanish Civil War…
Beauvoir in 1967
Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir at the Balzac Memorial
Algren in 1956
Antonio Núñez Jiménez, Beauvoir, Sartre and Che Guevara in Cuba, 1960.