Sartre

their subjects’ respective “choices” of the imaginary mode of existence; that is, their youthful opting for creative writing rat ...

to please his elders, especially his grandfather Schweitzer, whom he termed “God the Father,” because of his imperious manner an ...

novel also – a novel that I believe in, but a novel nevertheless.”^12 So he seems to be inviting us to read his autobiography as ...

in this account.^15 In that case, one might agree with Philippe Lejeune that “autobiography for Sartre is not ‘the story of my p ...

the “phoney war” of 1939 – 40 ; his autobiography,Words, published in 1964 ; the filmed conversation with Simone de Beauvoir and ...

If Sartre viewed his childhood in Paris as play-acting in front of the audience of his mother and grandparents, then this interp ...

his future stepfather.^23 It is obvious that the challenge of adolescence and the need to “share” his mother’s love with another ...

“I began my life as I doubtless shall end it: amidst books” (Words 25 ). The boy was destined for a literary (a)vocation, but on ...

I decided in favor of Corneille.”^26 Now his goal was to impress rather than to please. Henceforth recollection would do battle ...

individuals will experience a kind of social bond, if not community. But the movie audience, unlike the fusing group, is a purel ...

Aside from rare reflections on the “might have been” if his father had lived (cf.Words 55 ), there is little discussion of the S ...

de Beauvoir.^32 Sartre here revisits many of his recollections fromWo rd s but with a less harsh view. His stepfather, for examp ...

Still, Pouillon reminds him in this interview, it wascontingency, not violence, that was the capital experience of Sartre’s chil ...

(Film 24 ). This reflects the idealism that had plagued him from the start and which he would seek to combat as he articulated h ...

love, Simone Jollivet (called “Toulouse” but known as “Camille” in communication with Beauvoir). By then, Sartre had been introd ...

and historical materialist explanation (the so-called progressive- regressive method) that the later Sartre was to apply to Flau ...

late 1930 sand 1940 s, but it has yet to find its ontological grounding in a sense of a social subject, a “we” that is more than ...

2 An elite education: student, author, soldier, teacher A fter a mixedperformance in the public school in La Rochelle,^1 Sartre ...

pacifism impressed both young men. Sartre would occasionally quote Alain in later years, probably more than any of his other tea ...

based on his intense but mercurial relationship with Nizan, with whom he was having a falling-out. As he would later do with his ...