Author: Jean-Paul Sartre Translation: Stuart Gilbert (most common for this edition) File Type: EPUB (optimized for e-readers, tablets, and phones) Edition Reference: "Epub 14" (likely a 2014 digital release or reflowable edition) Book Description No Exit is the quintessential existentialist play, first performed in Paris in May 1944. The one-act drama famously contains the line "Hell is other people" ( L'enfer, c'est les autres ).