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 Biography of Jean Paul Sartre
757 words, approx. 3 pages
 The French philosopher and man of letters Jean Paul Sartre (1905-1980) ranks as the most versatile writer and as the dominant influence in three decades of French intellectual life. Jean Paul Sartre was born in Paris on June 21, 1905. His father, a... summary from source:
 Biography of Jean-Paul Sartre
11,624 words, approx. 39 pages
 The name Jean-Paul Sartre is recognized by millions around the world. By the time of his death in 1980 he was a public figure throughout Europe and something of a French and even worldwide intellectual property. His volumes have been translated into... summary from source:
Biography of Jean-Paul Sartre
10,192 words, approx. 34 pages
More than any other cultural figure of his generation, Jean-Paul Sartre set the tone of intellectual, philosophical, and literary activity both within postwar France and throughout Europe and the United States. Throughout his long writing career,... 
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Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre ( 21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980 ), normally known simply as Jean-Paul Sartre , was a French existentialist philosopher, dramatist and screenwriter, novelist, and critic. He had an enduring personal relationship with...
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 Sartre, Jean-Paul
1,732 words, approx. 6 pages(born June 21, 1905, Paris, France—died April 15, 1980, Paris) French novelist, playwright, and exponent of Existentialism—a philosophy acclaiming the freedom of the individual human being. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in... summary from source:
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1,114 words, approx. 4 pagesSARTRE, JEAN-PAUL (1905–1980), French philosopher and man of letters, is generally regarded as the chief exponent of the atheistic branch of existentialism. Soon after World War II, Sartre wrote in Existentialism and Humanism (London, 1948):... summary from source:
Sartre, Jean-Paul
296 words, approx. 1 pages(born June 21, 1905, Paris, France—died April 15, 1980, Paris) French philosopher, novelist, and playwright, the foremost exponent of existentialism. He studied at the Sorbonne, where he met Simone de Beauvoir, who became his lifelong companion... summary from source:
 Jean-Paul Sartre Information
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Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (June 21, 1905 – April 15, 1980), normally known simply as Jean-Paul Sartre (pronounced [ʒɑ̃ pol saʁtʁə]), was a French existentialist philosopher and pioneer, dramatist and screenwriter, novelist and critic....
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 The Historian Jean-Paul Sartre.(Book review)
12/22/2007: 547 words, approx. 2 pages Jean-Paul Sartre. By Andrew Leak. (London: Reaktion Books, 2006. Pp. vii, 167. $16.95.) Writing a short biographical introduction to Sartre is no easy feat, and it would be difficult to top this author's effort. After all, Sartre was one of the most... summary from source:
Monarch Notes Works of Jean-Paul Sartre: Introduction
01/01/1963: 4,368 words, approx. 15 pages Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 Introduction Sartre has probably exercised a greater impact upon the intellectual life of Europe since the Second World War than any other man of letters. He has made a vogue and battle cry out of an abstruse philosophical doctrine; his works... summary from source:
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AP Features Literature prize winner Lessing drops out of Nobel ceremony due to illness
11/28/2007: 293 words, approx. 1 pagesDoris Lessing is unable to travel to Stockholm to receive her Nobel Prize in literature on Dec. 10 due to back problems, the Nobel Foundation said Wednesday.Instead, the $1.5 million prize will be presented to the 87-year-old British writer in London, it said."Unfortunately her medical...
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 Critical Essay by Joseph Halpern
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Throughout the essays of Situations 1 one finds a recurrent preoccupation with the problems of language and silence, with the artist's perception of the insufficiencies of language, the perception that language disintegrates the wholeness of the artist's silent intuition. It is precisely those writers who vainly attempt to use language to express silence and a world that precedes words who fascinate Sartre—Parain, Bataille, Blanchot, Camus, Ponge, Faulkner. (p. 19) Sartre's preoc... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Fredric Jameson
4,617 words, approx. 15 pages
Sartre's originality, among contemporary critics of style, lies in his treatment of literary style as an objective rather than a subjective phenomenon. As against those for whom the work of art is the privileged occasion of contact with some deeper force, with the unconscious, with the personality, with Being, or with language, Sartre takes his place among the rhetoricians. The work of art is a construct designed to produce a certain effect; the style of the work of art is the instrument with which a... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Edward Morris
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In the following essay about Sartre's short story "Intimacy, " Morris examines the character Lulu, noting that in "Existentialist terms, Lulu refuses her choice; she remains 'astride' of a paradox in Baudelairian fashion. " Morris concludes by asserting that "Existentialism is for heroes."
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 Essay Grade: 92%Sartre: Authentic Existence in Living in Bad Faith
436 words, approx. 2 pages
A discussion of Sartre's existentialism philosphy that places the highest value and human freedom and decision-making. Failing to assume total responsibility for one's life causes existential anguish and is living an inauthentic life through pretending that we don't control our destiny.
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