War Diaries

Name: War Diaries
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ISBN: 9781844677849

Notebooks from a Phoney War, 1939-40

Jean-Paul Sartre, Quintin Hoare

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English

Verso
30 December 2011

Biography; Diaries, letters & journals; Western philosophy, from c 1900 -

Series: Radical Thinkers

During the phony war that preceded the invasion of France, between late 1939 and the summer of 1940, the young Jean-Paul Sartre was stationed in his native Alsace as part of a meteorological unit. He used his considerable periods of spare time, between mundane duties like watching weather balloons, to make a series of notes on philosophy, literature, politics, history and autobiography that anticipate the themes of his later masterpieces, and often surpass them in literary verve and directness. These War Diaries form a portrait of Sartre in his most intense and brilliant phase. With them the twentieth century's most remarkable and public philosopher has provided us with a fitting posthumous monument to his honest and creativity.

By: Jean-Paul Sartre
Translated by: Quintin Hoare
Imprint: Verso
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 132mm, Spine: 30mm
Weight: 438g
ISBN: 9781844677849
ISBN 10: 1844677842
Series: Radical Thinkers
Pages: 392
Publication Date: 30 December 2011
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jean-Paul Sartre was a prolific philosopher, novelist, public intellectual, biographer, playwright and founder of the journal Les Temps Modernes. Born in Paris in 1905 and died in 1980, Sartre was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1964 - and turned it down. His books include Nausea, Intimacy, The Flies, No Exit, Sartre's War Diaries, Critique of Dialectical Reason, and the monumental treatise Being and Nothingness.

Reviews for War Diaries: Notebooks from a Phoney War, 1939-40

Whatever you value in Sartre ... the notebooks add substantially to his achievement. The Times Enormously impressive, with all the crispness and manic intelligence which distinguish the early short stories and his one undoubted literary masterpiece, La Nausee. John Weightman, Observer