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No Exit (Huis Clos, 1944) is Jean-Paul Sartre's best known play, staging three strangers locked together for eternity in a single room that turns out to be Hell. Its closing line, spoken by Garcin, 'Hell is other people,' became one of the twentieth century's most quoted phrases, dramatizing Sartre's account of how the gaze of others fixes and confines the self.

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Composed, From (Year)
from 1944 1
Composed, To (Year)Sourced to the subject's own account
to 1944 2
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Existentialism, Movements
Source Encyclopaedia Britannica

Authored By

Jean-Paul Sartre, Authors
Source Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit (1944)

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Drama, Genres
Source No Exit (Wikipedia)
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1. No Exit (Wikipedia)
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The play was first performed at the Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier in May 1944.
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1. No Exit (Wikipedia)
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No Exit (French: Huis clos) is a 1944 existentialist French play by Jean-Paul Sartre.
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Encyclopaedia Britannica
Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.Associated With: ExistentialismView the Source
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