"Tifus" is an original script by Sartre, written in 1943 on behalf of the Pathé house that is now published for the first time.
Set in a Malaysian colony where a typhoid epidemic is declared, its approach reminds other anticolonial works of the time, but also invites to be read in parallel with Camus' La plague, also published in Edhasa.
To carry out his acerbic social criticism, Sartre uses some archetypal characters, such as the woman of dubious reputation who demonstrates a greater morality than the affluent bourgeois or the drunken man despised by all, a true human wreck who will nevertheless be the only one capable of more sublime sacrifice.
The character of overwhelming testimony of an era of European culture is one of the most undeniable values ​​of this unpublished text.
Arlette ElkaïmSartre describes with precision the trajectory and the importance of this text, that accompanies with the original schemes in which the disposition of the characters in some scenes is explained.