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Critical Essays (Situations I) contains essays on literature and philosophy from the highly formative period of Sartre’s life between 1938 and 1946. These were years in which he not only published his philosophical magnum opus, Being and Nothingness, but also emerged as one of France’s most promising young novelists and playwrights. He was, at the same time, consciously attempting to revive the essay form in detailed examinations of writers who were to make highly significant contributions to European cultural life in the immediate aftermath of World War II. These include Francis Ponge, Georges Bataille, Vladimir Nabokov, the reclusive Maurice Blanchot and, of course, Albert Camus, whose Outsider Sartre endeavours to ‘explain’ in these pages. This volume also contains a famous attack on the Catholic novelist François Mauriac, studies of the great American literary iconoclasts William Faulkner and John Dos Passos, and brief, but insightful essays on aspects of the philosophical writings of Edmund Husserl and René Descartes.
ISBN - 9781906497606
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Pages : 554
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