Sartre (Life & Times)
Publisher: Haus Pub.
Published: October 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9781904341857
Subjects: Biography: general; Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Sartre, Jean-Paul; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; French; Biography/Autobiography; Philosophers; Biography & Autobiography / Philosophers; European - French; Literary; 20th century; Authors, French; Biographies; Biography; France; Philosophes
First sentence: Nineteen hundred and five saw the first mass uprising in Russia against the Tsar, the Japanese annihilation of the Russian fleet, and in France the establishment of a unified socialist party and the separation of Church and State.
Description: Jean-Paul Sartre dominated the cultural and literary life of post-war France. He believed from an early age that he had a mission to be a writer and proceeded to realise this as a novelist, philosopher, screenwriter, playwright, literary and art critic, biographer, essayist, polemicist and journalist.