The Respectful Prostitute
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The Respectful Prostitute (La Putain respectueuse) is a French play by Jean-Paul Sartre, written in 1946, which observes a woman, a prostitute, caught up in a racially tense period of American history. The audience understands that there has been an incident on a train with said woman involved, but also a black man of whom the blame is laid upon by the prejudiced law enforcers. What we come to realize is a white man instigated an attack, but it is in the interests of the law to preserve his future as a white person at the expense of the black 'devil'.
The tale takes a brief look at the loss of freedom inside a cruel world, a subject that dominates Sartre's literary career. The play premiered in November 1946 at the Théâtre Antoine-Simone Berriau.
It was adapted in film La Putain respectueuse (1952).
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- Internet Book List :: Book Information: Respectful Prostitute, the
- New Play in Manhattan - TIME on April 5, 1948
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