| Crime Passionnel (Modern Plays) | 
 enlarge | Author: Jean-paul Sartre
Creator: Kitty Black
Publisher: Methuen Drama
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 48831
Media: Paperback
Edition: New edition
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5 x 0.4
ISBN: 0413310108
Dewey Decimal Number: 808
EAN: 9780413310101
ASIN: 0413310108
Publication Date: July 1, 1961
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 Existential politics October 19, 2004
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This short little play can be read very quickly, but if compared to/ used with Sartre's existential philosophy and known left wing political sympathy, much can be taken from it. If you look at the play for its political points, or for its use as a philosophical vehicle, you will enjoy it. It is not the best play to just pick up and read in terms in terms of pure, basic enjoyment. This translation can seem a little dry and flat at times, but it expresses some intreging ideas if you look below the surface; Hugo's motive for murder is a good example of this. All in all its not a five star play, its simply not that well written and developed (at least in English) to give you that buzz, but it gets a four for its short yet powerful punch, providing you know what its trying to hit.
 unentertaining November 20, 2001
1 out of 6 found this review helpful
Was this supposed to be an entertaining book? This is a book written by a depressive for depressives. Satre is a man of such inteilligence you'd think he could muster a book that would be mildly optomistic. If you dont have something nice to say...
This is depression on a stick.
My A-Level lifeline! November 8, 2001
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
This translation actually meant that I could take time out and ponder over all those political issues without panicking about whether I'd missed their real meaning anyway. How good... made a French modern masterpiece more easily accessible, although perhaps one shouldn't rely on it... Some of the translations don't quite hit the spot. But if read in conjunction with the French, all the better!
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