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Description for War Diaries
Paperback. The existentialist philosopher chronicles his time in the Resistance in the Second World War. Series: Radical Thinkers. Num Pages: 392 pages. BIC Classification: BJ; HPCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 30. Weight in Grams: 438.
During the phony war that preceded the invasion of France, between late 1939 and the summer of 1940, the young Jean-Paul Sartre was stationed in his native Alsace as part of a meteorological unit. He used his considerable periods of spare time, between mundane duties like watching weather balloons, to make a series of notes on philosophy, literature, politics, history and autobiography that anticipate the themes of his later masterpieces, and often surpass them in literary verve and directness. These War Diaries form a portrait of Sartre in his most intense and brilliant phase. With them the twentieth century's most ... Read more
During the phony war that preceded the invasion of France, between late 1939 and the summer of 1940, the young Jean-Paul Sartre was stationed in his native Alsace as part of a meteorological unit. He used his considerable periods of spare time, between mundane duties like watching weather balloons, to make a series of notes on philosophy, literature, politics, history and autobiography that anticipate the themes of his later masterpieces, and often surpass them in literary verve and directness. These War Diaries form a portrait of Sartre in his most intense and brilliant phase. With them the twentieth century's most ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Verso Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
Series
Radical Thinkers
Number of Pages
388
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781844677849
SKU
V9781844677849
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About Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Sartre was a philosopher, novelist, public intellectual, biographer, playwright and founder of the journal Les Temps modernes. Born in Paris in 1905, Sartre was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1964 - and turned it down. His books include Nausea, Intimacy, The Flies, No Exit, The Freud Scenario, War Diaries, Critique of Dialectical Reason, and the monumental treatise ... Read more
Reviews for War Diaries
Whatever you value in Sartre ... the notebooks add substantially to his achievement.
The Times
As a man, philosopher and novelist [Sartre] is ... hard to love. And yet love him I do, because of these diaries. They are the story of a mind finding itself, groping about for the theoretical scaffolding on which he would erect his ... Read more
The Times
As a man, philosopher and novelist [Sartre] is ... hard to love. And yet love him I do, because of these diaries. They are the story of a mind finding itself, groping about for the theoretical scaffolding on which he would erect his ... Read more