Research Catalog

Title

Typhus / Jean-Paul Sartre ; translated by Chris Turner ; edited and with an introduction by Arlette Elkaïm-Sartre.

Author

Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980

Publication

London ; New York : Seagull Books, 2010.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Turner, Chris, 1953-
• Elkaïm-Sartre, Arlette

Description

x, 200 p.; 20 cm.

Summary

Set in Malaya during the British protectorate, the story centers on the improbable couple formed by Nellie, a down-at-heel nightclub singer, whose partner succumbs at an early stage to the epidemic of typhus sweeping the country, and the disgraced former doctor Georges, who has sunk to the lowest depths of a highly stratified colonial society. Though it does not shy from the political issues of colonialism and race that are implied in its setting, Typhus is both a turbulent love story in the best traditions of Western popular cinema and an existentialist tale of moral redemption. --Publisher's description.

Series Statement

French list

Uniform Title

• Typhus. English
• French list

Alternative Title

Typhus.

Subject

• 1867-1942
• Motion picture plays, French
• Physicians > Malaysia > Drama
• Singers > Malaysia > Drama
• Imperialism > Drama
• Physicians
• Typhus, Epidemic Louse-Borne
• Malaya > History > British rule, 1867-1942 > Drama

Genre/Form

• Drama
• History
• Plays.

Note

• Translated from the French.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Part 1. Making Life Miserable for the Liberal Party -- Part 2. Keating's Way with Words -- Part 3. KEATING! The Musical We Had to Have.

ISBN

• 9781906497422 (hbk.)
• 1906497427 (hbk.)

OCLC

• 457149384
• SCSB-11013328

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library