Jean-Paul Sartre

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Standard Name: Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Simone de Beauvoir
SB 's account of her childhood is warm, funny, and delightful. During her adolescence she chose the path of the intellectual, and life became a struggle, which this book records in painful detail. The story...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Kathleen Nott
Her notice of Sartre in the Seventies, 1978 (a volume by Jean-Paul Sartre himself), concludes with a characteristic blend of seriousness and wit by saluting a brave, honest, profound, if intellectually pig-headed thinker and...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Simone de Beauvoir
SB handles the topic of Sartre 's decline, both physical and mental, in her usual clear-eyed, unsparing though not unfeeling style.
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Christina Stead
For Meanjin she wrote about the current falling-out in Paris between Camus (who had taken an anti-Stalinist line in L'Homme révolté) and Sartre . For Stead neither writer was a good enough Communist...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Storm Jameson
Her central theme here is the responsibility of the writer for the survival of the values of liberal humanism.
British Book News. British Council.
(1950): 838
Her title essay paints a sombre political picture of Britain. SJ discusses the...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Storm Jameson
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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Julia Kristeva
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...
Textual Production Simone de Beauvoir
In 1983 SB edited the letters written to her by Sartre between 1926 and 1963. Not until after her death (and several years after that of Sartre) did the letters which she had written to...
Textual Production Bryher
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...
Textual Production Simone de Beauvoir
Jean-Paul Sartre and SB launched a left-wing periodical, Les temps modernes (Modern Times), which became the premier intellectual journal in France (and which was also widely read elsewhere).
Brosman, Catharine Savage. Simone de Beauvoir Revisited. Twayne.
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“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Textual Production Simone de Beauvoir
Despite the implication of finality in her previous book of memoirs, her partner's death drew from SB , the following year, one more book of reminiscence: Le cérémonie des adieux: Suivi de entretiens avec Jean-Paul Sartre.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Textual Production Iris Murdoch
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 .
Conradi, Peter J. Iris Murdoch. A Life. HarperCollins.
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Conradi, Peter J. “A Literary Witness to Good and Evil”. Guardian Weekly, Guardian Publications, p. 24.
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Textual Production Simone de Beauvoir
This volume's epigraph comes from a play by Sartre : in English half victims, half accomplices, like everyone else.
Moi, Toril. “The Adulteress Wife”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 3, pp. 3-6.
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Textual Features Simone de Beauvoir
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...
Textual Features Maureen Duffy
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...

Timeline

1925: The Black US singer Josephine Baker, aged...

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1925

The Black US singer Josephine Baker , aged nineteen, met with phenomenal success in Paris; she was seen as exemplifying the Jazz Age on one hand and a new racial consciousness on the other.

December 1964: Jean-Paul Sartre was awarded the Nobel Prize...

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December 1964

Jean-Paul Sartre was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature but declined to accept it for personal and ideological reasons: the only person ever to do so.

June 1966: Anthropologist Mary Douglas published her...

Women writers item

June 1966

AnthropologistMary Douglas published her best-known work, Purity and Danger, a study of ritual behaviour and taboo.

1970: The Oxford philosopher Mary Warnock published...

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1970

The Oxford philosopher Mary Warnock published Existentialism a study which traces the common interests of a number of philosophers including Sartre , Kierkegaard , Nietzsche , Husserl , and Merleau-Ponty .

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