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Sartre's hellish torture "Huis Clos"

Trivia about no exit

  • The existential statment "Hell is other people" comes from this play
  • In this 1944 Sartre play, hell is represented by a gaudy Second Empire salon
  • Inez: "I prefer to choose my hell; I prefer to look you in the eyes and fight it out face to face"
  • This existentialist drama closed after just a few weeks on Broadway in 1946, thus disproving its own title
  • An infernal drawing room is the sole setting of this existential 1944 play

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