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Book Title - Les Jeux Sont Faits
Book Author- Jean-Paul Sartre // edited by Mary Elizabeth Storer - Beloit College
Book Publisher / Year - Appleton-Century-Crofts Educational Division Meredith Corporation - New York NY - 1952 - 215 pages
Book Condition - Soft cover - light handling and age to covers but strong yellow with black titles. Front title endpaper has a few notes - roughly 20 pages have either pencil or ink notes, underlining etc.. Binding is not tight but on solid side. An obviously used and read copy but not a disaster. Book is Good plus to Very Good minus depending on how one thinks the underlining affects grade.
Book Content - Title translates into English as "the bets have been placed" or "the chips are down" "the plays been made".
Les jeux sont faits, known in English as The Chips are Down, is a 1947 French fantasy film directed by Jean Delannoy, based on the screenplay of the same name by French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre. It was entered into the 1947 Cannes Film Festival.
Book has lengthy 24 page introduction in English by Storer as well as academic questionnaire after text and lengthy vocabulary translation / guide at very rear.
In a country very similar to France under German military occupation, two people are murdered at the same moment. Ève is poisoned by her influential husband, who wants her money and her naïve younger sister, Lucette. Pierre, a worker and a leader of the resistance, is shot by an informer. Meeting in the afterlife, the two fall in love. As they were fated to do so, but prevented by others, they are granted 24 hours back on earth. Their first mission is to do a favour to a dead man who was worried about his young daughter. Then, after brief sex, they address unfinished business. Ève confronts her evil husband and tries to convince her sister of his treachery. Pierre goes to a meeting of resisters and tries to convince them that their organisation is compromised by traitors. The 24 hours are up and most of the time was spent not on enjoying and deepening their relationship, which was often edgy, but on efforts to help others. Back in the afterlife they agree to part.