Narwhal (narwhal)'s status on Friday, 22-May-15 03:32:29 UTC
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@mushi The most common known English translation is "Hell is other people", though it has also been translated as "Hell is the Other" (which in my opinion fits in more with Sartre's philosphy given some of his other works that I'm familiar with). Anyway, the quotation itself is a bit loaded so I'll try to unpack it with brevity. It's a line spoken in his play "Huis Clos" (which is a legal term meaning in private, though the title is usually translated as "No Exit"). Anyway, the basic rundown is there are these three characters who are sent to the afterlife together, where the afterlife is just the three of them in a room with no mirrors or windows together for eternity. Therefore the line is sort of reflective of their condition, and thematically a reflection of Sartre's philosophy of "The Look" outlined in his other book "L'Être et Le Néant : Essai D'ontologie Phénoménologique", which explained in a really reductive manner is sort of how our self image is
