Jean-Paul Sartre

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

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...

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...