No Exit
1944 · 275 pages
Hell is other people, and Sartre proves it by locking a coward, a seducer, and a mother who drowned her baby in one bright room with no mirrors and no sleep.
★ 6.5
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Existentialism Is a Humanism
1946 · 128 pages
Existence precedes essence, Sartre told a packed Paris hall in 1945: you invent yourself by choosing and may blame nothing. The student torn between the Resistance and his mother is told to choose.
★ 6.3