War Diaries: Notebooks from a Phony War 1939-40 by Sartre, Jean-Paul

War Diaries: Notebooks from a Phony War 1939-40 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781844677849)

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Format: Paperback
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War Diaries: Notebooks from a Phony War 1939-40 by Sartre, Jean-Paul

War Diaries: Notebooks from a Phony War 1939-40

$39.95
War Diaries: Notebooks from a Phony War 1939-40 by Sartre, Jean-Paul

War Diaries: Notebooks from a Phony War 1939-40

$39.95
Format: Paperback
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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 remarkable and public philosopher has provided us with a fitting posthumous monument to his honest and creativity.

Author: Jean-Paul Sartre
ISBN-10: 1844677842
ISBN-13: 9781844677849
Publisher: Verso
Language: English
Published: 01/16/2012
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 1.30d
By Jean-Paul Sartre
By Jean-Paul Sartre
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Jean-Paul Sartre was a prolific philosopher, novelist, public intellectual, biographer, playwright and founder of the journal Les Temps Modernes. Born in Paris in 1905 and died in 1980, Sartre was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1964--and turned it down. His books include Nausea, Intimacy, The Flies, No Exit, Sartre's War Diaries, Critique of Dialectical Reason, and the monumental treatise Being and Nothingness.

Quintin Hoare is the director of the Bosnian Institute and has translated numerous works by Sartre, Antonio Gramsci, and other French authors. He lives in the United Kingdom.

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