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War Diaries

Sartre, Jean-Paul

First English edition. Verso, London, 1984. Translated by Quintin Hoare. Black cloth binding fine. Dust jacket has some scuffing, but very good otherwise.

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This edition, published a year after the original French, contains Sartre's personal and philosophical observations written during the Phoney period at the start of WWII, while he was part of the Resistance. Published posthumously, it represents an interesting addition to his oeuvre, adding biographical context and complementing his philosophical work.

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Jean Paul Sartre

The leading figure of 20th-century existentialism. His style is marked by a stark, "engaged" realism designed to provoke moral crisis, often placing characters in claustrophobic settings—most famously in the play No Exit—to illustrate the burdens of radical freedom and bad faith. While he was a global intellectual celebrity and was awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature (which he famously refused), he faced significant contemporary pushback from both the political right and traditionalists for his atheism and Marxist leanings. One half of one of the most iconic intellectual romantic partnerships in history with Simone de Beauvoir.

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