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• W72422416 abstract "I will not tell him the whereabouts of my friends nor of my enemies, either ... Am I a spy in the land of the living, that I should deliver men to Death? EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY. Conscientious Objector. Ou sont les avenirs d'antan? SARTRE: Cahiers de la drole de guerre. Prosaic though it may be to say so, the fact that Le Mur is narrated by its central figure, Pablo Ibbieta, forewarns us that he will survive its events, although of course we do not know how till near the end. Like Julien Sorel on his death-row, Pablo swivels between being momentarily glad of the company and more often wishing he were alone, for the sake of undistracted self-concentration. His problems are essentially his own, and this is perhaps his real problem. The story's title emphasises the physical context. Pablo, Tom and Juan have been switched from a cell in the archbishopric, into a hospital cellar: a kind of oubliette. It is a hint that the focus shifts from the soul to the body and to human consciousness, though aspirations towards immortality are not excluded. Light filters from above through an open trapdoor, but there is no earthly hope of escaping, any more than from a gallows-drop. Pablo's previous cell had encouraged him to summon up elements of his former life,--beaches, a bar, a bullfight,--but he had not been under a death-sentence there. That earlier world was reflected, upside-down, in the sky; the memory was painful but real. The now smaller patch of sky reflects nothing. He sees a solitary star. nuit serait pure et glacee (p.218), and thus suitable for the hard thinking he intends to do, unballasted by his past. His whole life has effectively been inverted. Offstage sound-effects of executions proceeding, like hearing a guillotine being nailed together, form a basso continuo for his self-examination. The walls around him and the others clearly represent the limits of possibility, pictured most powerfully in Tom's imagined sensation of facing a firing-squad and pressing back desperately into the wall. The walls also stand for the difficulties of communication between those enclosed within them. Pablo and Tom think often the same thoughts, but respond differently to them. A barrier separates consciousness and the body, as well as the individual and other, even once cherished, bodies such as Concha's. Above all, the wall of mystery,--what is death?--against which Pablo bangs his head. Sartre, whose head always buzzed with the already said in others' literature, knew he was rewriting the famous image of Pascal, later recycled by Malraux in La Condition humaine: On a dit que nous etions dans la situation d'un condamne, parmi des condamnes, qui ignore le jour de son execution, mais qui voit executer chaque jour ses compagnons. Ce n'est pas tout a fait exact: il faudrait plutot nous comparer a un condamne a mort qui se prepare bravement au dernier supplice, qui met tous ses soins a faire belle figure sur l'echafaud et qui, entre temps, est enleve par une epidemie de grippe espagnole(1). Sartre clearly did not want, as Pascal did, to instil the fear of God in readers, nor, like Malraux, to celebrate orotundly human fraternity, but to exploit the black humour of a fundamentally absurd phenomenon, typified by the aristocrat implicitly alluded to above, quipping on his way to the scaffold (e.g. Thomas More). On a more technically philosophical level, Sartre was equally kicking against Heidegger, whose notion of Sein zum Tode Sartre sees as the false culmination of a process already initiated by Rilke and Malraux : the recuperation and humanisation of death(2). …" @default.
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