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Typhus Jean-Paul Sartre

Typhus By Jean-Paul Sartre

Typhus by Jean-Paul Sartre


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Summary

Set in Malaya during the British protectorate, this title centers on the improbable couple formed by the disgraced former doctor Georges, who has sunk to the lowest depths of a highly stratified colonial society, and Nellie, a down-at-heel nightclub singer, whose partner succumbs to the typhus epidemic sweeping the country.

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Typhus by Jean-Paul Sartre

Set in Malaya during the British protectorate, Sartre's Typhus centers on the improbable couple formed by the disgraced former doctor Georges, who has sunk to the lowest depths of a highly stratified colonial society, and Nellie, a down-at-heel nightclub singer, whose partner succumbs to the typhus epidemic sweeping the country. Though it does not shy from the explosive issues of colonialism and race that are implicit in its setting, Typhus is both a turbulent love story in the best traditions of Western popular cinema and an existentialist tale of moral redemption that shares many fascinating parallels with Albert Camus' novel The Plague. Jean-Paul Sartre penned the screenplay Typhus in 1943-44 on a commission for French filmmakers Pathe, who were planning a postwar production. However, the film was never made, though Yves Allegret's 1953 film The Proud Ones retains some distant echoes of Sartre's original script. The script was lost for nearly sixty years before being rediscovered and published in French in 2007. This first English publication will be essential for fans of Sartre and twentieth-century French literature and postwar film.

Typhus Reviews

One of the most brilliant and versatile writers as well as one of the most original thinkers of the twentieth century. - Times (UK) Jean-Paul Sartre dominated the intellectual life of twentieth-century France to an extraordinary degree. - Tom Bishop, New York Times

About Jean-Paul Sartre

Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-80) was a novelist, playwright, and biographer, and he is widely considered one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century. Chris Turner is a writer and translator who lives in Birmingham, England.

Additional information

GOR009029941
9781906497422
1906497427
Typhus by Jean-Paul Sartre
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Seagull Books London Ltd
20100810
212
N/A
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