A Puerta Cerrada (Spanish Edition) by Jean-Paul Sartre

4.05 AVERAGE

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lenus's review against another edition

5.0
emotional fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated

ohclaire's review against another edition

5.0
I really enjoyed reading this, though the translation I used had some weird formatting errors. Absolutely wonderful. Obviously it's philosophically interesting but it's also a dark comedy in it's own right. I would love to play Inez.

maybephasing's review against another edition

3.0
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

mmaja's review against another edition

4.0
tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

exhaustedreader's review against another edition

3.75
challenging dark reflective slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

strawbecky113's review against another edition

4.0
challenging dark funny mysterious reflective tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

nykola_dzk's review against another edition

4.0
hell is other people.
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aliazmi99's review against another edition

3.25
challenging dark reflective tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
too long (or maybe was just the rendition i saw)

the fear of being perceived and locked in that perception do be real but i don't empathise with how crippling this fear is as it is for sartre. idk bro, like, grow up you know? i dont think we only exist in others' perception of us, which seems to be the driving force of the 3 characters' despair. it did seem like they moved in that direction towards the end but i wasn't very convinced. despair was winning in this one, for sure.

the 3 characters were proper ugly and not in a way that felt unlikely - WE could be just as bad, if not already. still, the way that they brought the worst out of each other as they got deeper into this hell of other people was so relentlessly spiteful and malicious that i just felt a bit tired by the end? and not in a good way lol

the fact that the 3 of them are never gonna get laid and are in hell was funny tho. sartre you lil horny fella ahahahaha
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aheroux_24's review against another edition

3.5
dark funny reflective fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
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foraging_pages's review against another edition

4.0
I finished this in an hour, but I forgot to mark as read.