The words
By: Jean-Paul Sartre; translated from the French by Bernard Frechtman
Contributors: Frechtman, Bernard
Publisher: George Braziller
Published: 1964
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng; fre
Translated from: fre
Translation of: Les mots
Number of pages: 255
Subjects: Philosophers; French Authors; Biography; French; Authors
Work titles: Mots
Description: Jean-Paul Sartre was arguably the best-known and most influential French writer of his time. As a philosopher, as a novelist, as a playwright, as the author of filmscripts, as the editor of Les Temps Modernes, as a man who was never afraid to commit himself to the moral and political as well as the literary life of his own times, he was unique. Not since Voltaire has Western civilization produced so humane, manifold, and boldly "engaged" a man of letters. At 59, he undertook his autobiography, bringing to his own childhood the same rigor of honesty and insight which he had applied so brilliantly in earlier books to Baudelaire and Jean Genet. "Directed to the heart as well as to the intellect," the result is like nothing else in the Sartre canon, or in France, where The Words has been accorded a place beside that other masterpiece of self-analysis, Rousseau's Confessions.--Adapted from publisher description.
Notes: Autobiographical.

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