Sartre: A Life
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The definitive life of the twentieth century's most public philosopher, traced from a fatherless Parisian childhood to the café tables where existentialism was born and on to the streets where Sartre marched, agitated, and refused the Nobel Prize. Annie Cohen-Solal had unprecedented access to those who knew him, and the result is less a dry chronicle than a portrait drawn from the inside out — the writer, the lover, the political firebrand, the small man with the wandering eye who somehow became the conscience of a generation. Witty, exhaustively researched, and quietly devastating, this is the biography that captures not just what Sartre thought but how he lived, contradictions and all.
Author: Annie Cohen-Solal
Format: Hardback, 555 pages, 160mm x 250mm
Published: 1987, Cornerstone, United Kingdom
Genre: History of Ideas & Popular Philosophy
The definitive life of the twentieth century's most public philosopher, traced from a fatherless Parisian childhood to the café tables where existentialism was born and on to the streets where Sartre marched, agitated, and refused the Nobel Prize. Annie Cohen-Solal had unprecedented access to those who knew him, and the result is less a dry chronicle than a portrait drawn from the inside out — the writer, the lover, the political firebrand, the small man with the wandering eye who somehow became the conscience of a generation. Witty, exhaustively researched, and quietly devastating, this is the biography that captures not just what Sartre thought but how he lived, contradictions and all.