«Come una promessa d’uragano». Identità, desiderio e politica nelle “Mosche” di Jean-Paul Sartre

Abstract

During the dark years of the Nazi Occupation of Paris, Jean-Paul Sartre wrote The Flies, reworking the saga of the Atreidae into a site for a radical reflection on the relationship between freedom and identity. This article reconstructs the historical and political context of the play’s writing and staging, before turning to its critical reception and to Sartre’s implicit and explicit statements. On this basis, it proposes a philosophical interpretation of the play: at its core emerges the figure of Orestes as a subject en quête, driven by a desire for identity and belonging that intertwines with disturbing impulses and whose trajectory leads to a radical solitude, the tragic and risky essence at the heart of all true freedom.