Jean-Paul Sartre used to be arguably the main celebrated and written-about highbrow of the 20 th century. He used to be additionally the most divisive: twenty-five years after his dying, his identify nonetheless provokes revulsion and admiration in equivalent degree. yet who fairly knew him? From early on, Sartre cultivated exposure and transparency as paradoxical shields of his privateness. via a powerful variety of biographical writings, interviews and flicks, and during the chronicling abilities of his life-long better half Simone de Beauvoir, he successfully wrote his existence as he was once residing it. the matter continually encountered through biographers has been to damage unfastened from the authority of Sartre's insistent self-interpretation. In his concise bio-critical research, Andrew Leak bargains normal readers and extra specialized scholars alike a manner of realizing the seeming enigmas and contradictions in Sartre's very public, and sometimes harmful commitments. underneath the pictures of a recognized lifestyles - from pre-war apoliticism to help of the Nineteen Seventies leftists, via erratic help for the French communists and loyal aid for all anti-colonial struggles - there runs a unmarried unbroken thread: a quasi-neurotic attachment to the act of writing itself. This research makes an attempt to keep on with that thread, because it examines Sartre's lifestyles via serious moments in his lifestyles and works.
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