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Sartre is the dominant figure in post-war French intellectual life. A graduate of the prestigious Ecole Normale Superieure with an agregation in philosophy, Sartre has been a major figure on the literary and philosophical scenes since the late 1930s. Widely known as an atheistic proponent of existentialism, he emphasized the priority of existence over preconceived essences and the importance of human freedom. In his first and best novel, Nausea (1938), Sartre contrasted the fluidity of human consciousness with the apparent solidity of external reality and satirized the hypocrisies and pretensions of bourgeois idealism. Sartre's theater is also highly ideological, emphasizing the importance of personal freedom and the commitment of the individual to social and political goals. His first play, The Flies (1943), was produced during the German occupation, despite its underlying message of defiance. One of his most popular plays is the one-act No Exit (1944), in which the traditional theological concept of hell is redefined in existentialist terms. In Red Gloves (Les Mains Sales) (1948), Sartre examines the pragmatic implications of the individual involved in political action through the mechanism of the Communist party and a changing historical situation. His highly readable autobiography, The Words (1964), tells of his childhood in an idealistic bourgeois Protestant family and of his subsequent rejection of his upbringing. Sartre has also made significant contributions to literary criticism in his 10-volume Situations (1947--72) and in works on Baudelaire, Genet, and Flaubert. In 1964 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature and refused it, saying that he always declined official honors. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from Nausea… (more)
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Iron in the Soul (Author) 1,448 copies, 5 reviews
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No Exit (Author) 865 copies, 13 reviews
Existentialism Is a Humanism (Author) 851 copies, 9 reviews
What is Literature? (Author) 795 copies, 6 reviews
Dirty Hands (Author) 759 copies, 5 reviews
The Chips Are Down (Author) 735 copies, 6 reviews
Existentialism and Human Emotions (Author) 617 copies, 4 reviews
Essays In Existentialism 511 copies, 3 reviews
Existentialism is a Humanism (Author) 470 copies, 5 reviews
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The Psychology of Imagination 466 copies, 4 reviews
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Situations IV {Portraits and Perspectives} (Author) 178 copies, 1 review
Literary Essays 153 copies
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In the Mesh (Author) 89 copies
The Phenomenology Reader (Contributor) 87 copies
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The Wretched of the Earth (Preface, some editions) 3,879 copies, 26 reviews
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Our Lady of the Flowers (Introduction, some editions) 1,749 copies, 13 reviews
The Thief's Journal (Introduction, some editions) 1,407 copies, 5 reviews
The Colonizer and the Colonized (Introduction, some editions) 564 copies, 2 reviews
Poems (Introduction, some editions) 454 copies, 4 reviews
The Maids and Deathwatch: Two Plays (Preface, some editions) 432 copies, 6 reviews
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Best Short Stories of the Modern Age (Contributor, some editions) 328 copies, 4 reviews
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Western Philosophy: An Anthology (Author, some editions) 173 copies
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Aden, Arabie (Introduction, some editions) 124 copies, 3 reviews
The Question (Preface, some editions) 123 copies, 2 reviews
The Christopher Street reader (Contributor) 117 copies
Camus: A Collection of Critical Essays (Contributor, some editions) 98 copies, 1 review
French Short Stories (Contributor) 81 copies
Great French Short Stories (Contributor) 70 copies, 1 review
Sartre: A Life 61 copies
New York (Contributor) 58 copies, 2 reviews
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The traitor (Foreword) 53 copies, 1 review
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