The game is over
The game is over ( fr. Les jeux sont faits ) is a 1943 written and 1947 published screenplay of the French writer and philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre . It was made into a film by Jean Delannoy in 1947 .
action
The action takes place in an imaginary fascist state .
At around the same time, Ève Charlier was poisoned by her husband, the militia secretary André Charlier, and Pierre Dumaine, a member of the underground movement planning an armed uprising, was shot dead by an informer. After their death, they follow an inner voice that leads them to a room on rue Laguénésie. There they both find out from a very formal person sitting behind a table that they are dead. They learn that they can continue to move in the real world, but are not perceived by the living and that they can no longer influence the real world. This is where Ève and Pierre meet for the first time and after a short time they fall in love.
Pierre learns, however, that his planned uprising has been betrayed and the government is planning a trap for his friends. Ève also experiences something unpleasant. Namely that her husband, André, is now approaching Ève's sister. The two worry about their respective friends and relatives. But since they cannot influence the world of the living, it becomes a torture for them to watch and not be able to do anything.
On another visit to Rue Laguénésie, it turns out that, according to the documents, they were meant for each other from birth, but that they did not meet because of a bureaucratic error. They are given the opportunity to return to life to prove their love. Overwhelmed by the situation, both immediately agree to return. It is not quite clear whether the two agree out of love, or whether they do it so that Pierre can warn his friends and Ève her sister. But the matter has one condition. Pierre and Ève are only allowed to remain in the world of the living if they manage to trust each other fully within 24 hours and to maintain their affection for the difficulties that arise.
Doubts due to the unequal social background and unresolved conflicts in the past ultimately lead to another violent death of the two.
classification
Although widely accepted, the book is not based on the existentialism developed by Sartre . Sartre himself said that existentialism did not allow the game to end, since human actions continued even after death. Sartre orients himself in this work on determinism .
shape
A formal peculiarity results from the function as a script . Sartre writes from an authoritative perspective and only suggests the scenes and the immediate surroundings of the event with brief words.
Controversy
The book plays with the idea of life after death. In Sartre's book, the deceased remain in the same real world regardless of their deeds during their lifetime, with the difference that they only take part as observers and no longer as actors.
literature
- The game is over , 1947. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1952 ISBN 3-499-10059-2
- Wolfgang Hierse: Sartre. The dramatic work 2. Interpretations and investigations. Series: Analyzes and Reflections AR, 65. Joachim Beyer, Hollfeld 1988 ISBN 3888050405
Individual evidence
- ↑ Interview with Paul Carrière in Le Figaro on April 29, 1947.
- ↑ Also about: The dirty hands ; The honorable whore; The devil and the good Lord ; The trapped (from Altona) = Les séquestrés d'Altona; In the gear train