Reviews - A Puerta Cerrada (Spanish Edition)

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A Puerta Cerrada (Spanish Edition)

Jean-Paul Sartre

4.05 AVERAGE

ruthbeadle's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional reflective tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Les idées de cette pièce sont très interessante. Le mode de livraison des idées est très simple et efficace. Je pense que cette pièce deviendra meilleure à chaque nouvelle lecture.

The ideas in this play are very interesting. The delivery mode of the ideas are very simple and effective. I think that every new reading of this play will make it better.

kmar_el_matri's review against another edition

4.5

dark funny mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

moss_s_s's review against another edition

3.75

challenging reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

coderead's review against another edition

4.5

dark reflective sad tense medium-paced

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

The only thing I dislike about this play is that its most famous quote, "Hell is other people", is taken too literally as a pithy aphorism by the public (and also my Eng Lit teacher. you were WRONG Mr. D)

["Hell is other people" is] only one side of the coin. The other side, which no one seems to mention, is also "Heaven is each other". Hell is separateness, uncommunicability, self-centeredness, lust for power, for riches, for fame. Heaven on the other hand is very simple, and very hard: caring about your fellow beings. And that's possible on a sustained basis only in collectivity.

-- Sartre in an interview with John Gerassi, Talking with Sartre (2009)

(Also half a star docked for the buried gays)