"Hell is other people," Jean-Paul Sartre famously wrote in No Exit. The fantastic tragicomedy Madah-Sartre brings him back from the dead to confront the strange and awful truth of that statement. As the story begins, Sartre and his consort in intellect and love, Simone de Beauvoir, are on their way to the funeral of Tahar Djaout, an Algerian poet and journalist slain in 1993. En route they are kidnapped by Islamic terrorists and ordered to convert . . . or die. Since they are already dead, fearless Sartre gives the terrorists a chance to convince him with reason. What follows is, as James D....

Le 04 janvier 1960, Albert Camus s en allait un peu dans un tragique accident de voiture a l age de 47 ans. Quatre annees auparavant, il etait l un des plus jeunes ecrivains a recevoir le prix Nobel de litterature pour toute son uvre. L enfance pauvre a Belcourt, la passion du football, le journalisme a Alger Republicain puis l exclusion et l exil par la France de Vichy, Camus sera force de - monter - a Paris. Il rejoindra la Resistance et sera le redacteur en chef de Combat. Romancier, dramaturge, essayiste, Camus sera aussi acteur et metteur en scene. Apres la publication de...