Jean-Paul Sartre, Séquestrés d'Altona, Les [Condemned of Altona, The]

Benedict Paul O'Donohoe (University of Sussex)

Ed. by Edward Forman, University of Bristol
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.5.2.07: French Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Kate Averis (University of Western Australia), Hugo Azerad (University of Cambridge), Patrick ffrench (King's College London), Edward Forman (University of Bristol), Akane Kawakami (Birkbeck, University of London), Siobhán McIlvanney (King's College London), Sinan Richards (King's College London), Tim Unwin (University of Bristol), David Williams (University of Sheffield)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1959

Places

France (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Play

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This is the tenth and last of Sartre’s original plays – succeeded in 1965 only by his adaptation of Euripides’

Trojan Women

– and also one of the longest, most complex and multi-layered. First performed in Paris in September 1959, the text appeared in successive issues of Sartre’s critical review,

Les Temps modernes,

in October and November, before being published by Gallimard in 1960. It is a measure of Sartre’s contemporary reputation that it was adapted for the cinema, as

I Sequestrati di Altona

, only two years later by the leading Italian director, Vittorio de Sica, with a stellar multinational cast: Maximilian Schell (Frantz), Sophia Loren (Johanna), Fredric March (the Father), Françoise Prévost (Leni) and Robert Wagner (Werner). Sartre began writing the play in July…

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Citation: O'Donohoe, Benedict Paul. "Séquestrés d'Altona, Les". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 15 June 2015 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=35219, accessed 23 April 2024.]

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