French Play |
Les Mains sales by Sartre |
Meendum oru viduthalai (Click on the links on the left to see full tamil translation)
The play deals with the theme of violence in politics and capturing power. The following dialogues are pointers
" Do you think that the party is a stable where horses are bred. What is the use of sharpening daily a knife if you are not going to cut anything. The party is just a tool. the objective is to capture the power." p 152
" Purity is a concept of the sanyasins and armchair intellectuals.Bourgeois like you use that as a pretext to keep your hands crossed and do nothing.I am not like that. My hands are dirty. they have plunged into blood and stools upto elbows. Yes.. So what.Do you think that one can hold power with absolutely clean hands? p155.
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Brief background
For a playwright, Sartre would say, "What a writer must attempt, is to show man as he is. Nowhere is man more man than when he is in action and this is exactly what drama portrays. He had already written in this medium during the war, and now one play followed another."
Les Mains sales is based mainly on the theme of existentialism which Sartre espoused, but many have taken it as a straightforward political drama. Right-wingers welcomed it as anti-communist, and left-wingers attacked it for the same reason. When the film version was released in France in 1951 Communists threatened the cinemas showing it. In fact the play itself was not re-staged in France until 1976.
It was not even staged in a socialist state until November 1968 when it was shown in Prague after the invasion of Czechoslovakia by fellow Warsaw Pact forces; appropriate given that differences in Communist doctrine is one of its themes.
A young intellectual, Hugo, joins the Communist Party out of a sense of idealism, only to see his principles manipulated by party leaders. He is given the assignment of killing Professor Hoederer, a party deviationist. However, he grows to admire the man and begins to have doubts about morals and revolutionary politics. But jealousy - Hugo thinks Hoederer has made love to his wife, Jessica - takes matters out of the political realm. .
நுழைவாயில்
Meendum oru viduthalai (Click on the links on the left to see full tamil translation)
The play deals with the theme of violence in politics and capturing power. The following dialogues are pointers
" Do you think that the party is a stable where horses are bred. What is the use of sharpening daily a knife if you are not going to cut anything. The party is just a tool. the objective is to capture the power." p 152
" Purity is a concept of the sanyasins and armchair intellectuals.Bourgeois like you use that as a pretext to keep your hands crossed and do nothing.I am not like that. My hands are dirty. they have plunged into blood and stools upto elbows. Yes.. So what.Do you think that one can hold power with absolutely clean hands? p155.
_______________________________________________
Brief background
For a playwright, Sartre would say, "What a writer must attempt, is to show man as he is. Nowhere is man more man than when he is in action and this is exactly what drama portrays. He had already written in this medium during the war, and now one play followed another."
Les Mains sales is based mainly on the theme of existentialism which Sartre espoused, but many have taken it as a straightforward political drama. Right-wingers welcomed it as anti-communist, and left-wingers attacked it for the same reason. When the film version was released in France in 1951 Communists threatened the cinemas showing it. In fact the play itself was not re-staged in France until 1976.
It was not even staged in a socialist state until November 1968 when it was shown in Prague after the invasion of Czechoslovakia by fellow Warsaw Pact forces; appropriate given that differences in Communist doctrine is one of its themes.
A young intellectual, Hugo, joins the Communist Party out of a sense of idealism, only to see his principles manipulated by party leaders. He is given the assignment of killing Professor Hoederer, a party deviationist. However, he grows to admire the man and begins to have doubts about morals and revolutionary politics. But jealousy - Hugo thinks Hoederer has made love to his wife, Jessica - takes matters out of the political realm. .
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