Jean-Paul Sartre

This book faces up to plenty of disagreeable facts: in personal life the onset of ageing, in political life the long-drawn pain of France's colonial war in Algeria. A recurrent topic is the way...

Sartre believed it to be the best thing she had ever written.

SB handles the topic of Sartre 's decline, both physical and mental, in her usual clear-eyed, unsparing though not unfeeling style.

Desmond MacCarthy had launched Life and Letters in June 1928; it issued its last number this month, and Bryher's new publication first appeared in September. It merged it with the London Mercury after May 1939...

Its subject is the relationship between a daughter and the mother (who conceived and bore her outside marriage, without the cushion of financial security), and about their struggles to survive. Tales of the mother's own...

ND was educated at a convent school, which she left at the age of fourteen. Reading of some texts which were vital to her experience—Jane Austen and Jean-Paul Sartre —came after she had left...

Though KKD 's father, Abanimohan Kushari , studied economics at the University of Dacca (now Dhaka) and worked as a civil servant, his true love was literature. He taught himself to speak French and German...

During her six years with the Montreal Standard, MG wrote about economic, cultural, political, and social issues, including interviewing post-war refugees, reporting on Jean-Paul Sartre 's visit to the city in 1946, and exploring...

Her central theme here is the responsibility of the writer for the survival of the values of liberal humanism. Her title essay paints a sombre political picture of Britain. SJ discusses the...

Throughout this work SJ glosses over such events as marriage, divorce, and illness in favour of examining her psychology and behaviour, her struggle to balance motherhood and a public career, the value of creative writing...

The first of these books addresses Freud 's concept of revolt against the fathers as the basis of individual maturation and independence, and seeks by looking at the lives of three distinguished modern social rebels...

After the rejection of her fourth novel, BM turned her attention to short stories for John O'London's Weekly and other magazines. She was fascinated by an article by Sartre on the work of Francis Ponge

IM published Sartre : Romantic Rationalist, a philosophical monograph: her first book, and the earliest by anyone on Sartre's work, dedicated to her mother and father .

In Brussels, while working for UNRRA , IM first encountered existentialist philosophy, which was to have a profound effect on her life and work. She met Sartre in 1945. At a slightly later stage...

In shaping her thought, her father 's influence was primary. Later influences on her thinking and therefore also in her novels were provided by Dostoevsky in particular, by existentialist philosophy as embodied in Sartre ...