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The Words

Sartre

When time and perspective allow the intellectual history of the postwar world to be written, Jean-Paul Sartre's name will be at the center. Philosopher, playwright, novelist, political theoretician and AGENT PROVOCATEUR, Sartre has done more than most other men to shape contemporary thinking....The question he now raises in THE WORDS is of such centrality, so crucial to our understanding of the nature of art and thought, that the book (translated from the French by Bernard Frechtman) is likely to become a la ndmark of our age's self-inquiry.... the origins of the self, a dream of the past, and an unsparing personal memoir which is at another pole from formal philosophy....

At 59, Sartre has undertaken his autobiography, bringing to his own childhood the same rigor of honesty and insight which he 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, and in France, where The Words has headed the best seller list since its publication Appears to be the first printing of the American Edition of this book

CONDITION:Hard Cover with Dust Jacket, light wear to dj, book in vg+ condition