Work · Jean-Paul Sartre
Typhus
In an Asian port struck by an epidemic, characters confront danger, exploitation and damaged social bonds.
Understanding the text
A wartime screenplay published in 2007, associated with the project that became the different film The Proud and the Beautiful.
Key points
- 01
Epidemic
Disease exposes hierarchies and responsibilities concealed in ordinary life.
- 02
Situation
Personal rescue cannot be detached from every surrounding relationship.
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Cinema
Scenes, gestures and movement construct decisions instead of abstract demonstration.
How to read it
Distinguish the published manuscript from the later film project's transformations.
Editions & sources
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