The Wall And Other Stories Author:Jean Paul Sartre, Lloyd Alexander (Translator) In the five stories included in this collection -- "The Wall," "The Room," "Erostratus," "Intimacy" and "The Childhood of a Leader" -- the French master of Existentialism displays his powers of narrative and psychological insight at their most effective. Sartre's characters and situations mir... more »ror the conficts, complexities, neuroses and sensuality of the twentieth centure. His intellectual underworld includes a modern Erostratus who is compelled to murder, a psychotic who communicates his hallucinations to his formerly-sane spouse, an unfaithful wife still bound to her impotent husband, a boy's metamorphosis into an anti-semitic fascist, and the astonishing fate of a political prisoner.
An earlier edition of this collection was published under the title Intimacy.« less