num_pages: 60
description: Jean-Paul Sartre, the great French existentialist, displays his mastery of drama in NO EXIT, an unforgettable portrayal of hell.The play is a depiction of the afterlife in which three deceased characters are punished by being locked into a room together for all eternity. It is the source of Sartre's especially famous and often misinterpreted quotation "L'enfer, c'est les autres" or "Hell is other people", a reference to Sartre's ideas about the Look and the perpetual ontological struggle of being caused to see oneself as an object in the world of another consciousness.
language: English
title: No Exit
titlecomplete: No Exit
characters: Garcin, Estelle, Inès
genres: Classics, Drama, Theatre, France, Philosophy, Plays, School, Literature, French Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 37486
places: Hell
awards: awardedAt: -725817600000
name: New York Drama Critics' Circle Award
category: Best Foreign Play
publisher: Samuel French, Inc.