Sartre Jean-Paul

After his father's early death Jean-Paul Sartre was brought up at his grandfather's home in a world even then eighty years out of date. In Words Sartre recalls growing up within the confines of French provincialism in the period before the First World War, an illusion-ridden childhood made bearable by his lively imagination and passion for reading...

- Comment s'appellent-ils, ces trois-la ?- Steinbock, Ibbieta et Mirbal, dit le gardien.Le commandant mit ses lorgnons et regarda sa liste :- Steinbock... Steinbock... Voila. Vous etes condamné a mort.Vous serez fusillé demain matin.Il regarda encore :- Les deux autres aussi, dit-il.- C'est pas possible, dit Juan. Pas moi.Le commandant le regarda...

Donc j'étais tout a l'heure au Jardin public. La racine du marronnier s'enfonçait dans la terre, juste au-dessous de mon banc. Je ne me rappelais plus que c'était une racine. Les mots s'étaient évanouis et, avec eux, la signification des choses, leurs modes d'emploi, les faibles reperes que les hommes ont tracés a leur surface. J'étais assis, un...

Jean-Paul Sartre's first published novel, Nausea is both an extended essay on existentialist ideals, and a profound fictional exploration of a man struggling to restore a sense of meaning to his life. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is translated from the French by Robert Baldick with an introduction by James Wood.Nausea is both the story of...

Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980), francuski pisarz i filozof, trzy swoje dzieła poświęcił innym pisarzom, klasykom francuskiej literatury. Opisał kolejno, w coraz obszerniejszych pracach (ostatnia ma trzy tomy), Charles'a Baudelaire'a, Jeana Geneta i Gustave'a Flauberta. Niniejsza, opublikowana w 1947 roku, krótko po wydaniu Bytu i nicości, pochodzi z...

Being and Nothingness is without doubt one of the most significant books of the twentieth century. The central work by one of the world's most influential thinkers, it altered the course of western philosophy. Its revolutionary approach challenged all previous assumptions about the individual's relationship with the world. Known as 'the Bible of...