Greek debt crisis: an existentialist drama with no good end in sight | Larry Elliott
by Larry Elliott from on (#2BHZA)
Sartre's Huis Clos has three damned souls arguing in a room for eternity. Greece has Tsipras, Schiuble and Lagarde. Now there's a fourth: enter stage right Donald Trump
Put three people in a room who can't get on with each other. Condemn them to stay there for all eternity while they torture each other. Sit and watch as the gruesome story plays out. And what do you have?
One answer is the 1944 existentialist play by Jean-Paul Sartre, Huis Clos. Another is the story of the neverending Greek debt crisis in which the three main characters are Alexis Tsipras, Wolfgang Schiuble and Christine Lagarde.
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