Salon littéraire: Le Mur de Jean-Paul Sartre

The Book

Le Mur  (1939), is one of Jean-Paul Sartre's greatest existentialist works of fiction.  Written in 1939, the story is set in the Spanish Civil War.  The porotagonist, Pablo Ibbieta, alo is a political prisoner condemned to execution by fascist officers. Along with two other prisoners in his cell, they alll prepare themselves to death. The story depicts with a surprising, uncomfortable lucidity the long and intimate relationship to one's death, and what it means to die for one's ideas. 

The Author

Jean-Paul Sartre, (born June 21, 1905, Paris, died April 15, 1980, Paris) is a French philosopher, novelist, and playwright, best known as the leader existentialism in the 20th century. In 1964 he declined the Nobel Prize  for Literature, which had been awarded to him “for his work which, rich in ideas and filled with the spirit of freedom and the quest for truth, has exerted a far-reaching influence on our age.”

Where to find a copy?

French Version: 

•  Le Mur on Amazon.
• You can find used copies on Biblio. 

English Version:

• on Amazon