Johanna faces Werner A three-page draft from Les Séquestrés d’Altona

Sartre’s rough draft of act 3, scene 4 of Les Séquestrés d’Altona (1959), begun in late summer 1958 and finished over the next year, survived as three handwritten pages, presented here as an avant-texte. The key themes of the scene—a long dialogue between Johanna and her husband Werner, in his study—are the sexualization of power, feminism, and the relevance of Nietzsche.