Knihy od: Sartre, J. P.

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...

This book presents a full decade of Sartre's work, from the publication of the Critique of Dialectical Reason in 1960, the basic philosophical turning-point in his postwar development, to the inception of his major study on Flaubert, the first volumes of which appeared in 1971. The essays and interviews collected...

Being and Nothingness is without doubt one of the most significant books of the twentieth century. The central work by one of the world's most influential thinkers, it altered the course of western philosophy. Its revolutionary approach challenged all previous assumptions about the individual's relationship with the world. Known as...

Fils de famille, Lucien Fleurier est la recherche de lui - m me : d´une enfance dorée et confortable aux révoltes de l´adolescence, de la boh me aux milieux d´extr me droite, le jeune homme tente de conna

Set in the volatile Paris summer of 1938, The Age of Reason follows two days in the life of Mathieu Delarue, a philosophy teacher, and his circle in the cafes and bars of Montparnasse. Mathieu has so far managed to contain sex and personal freedom in conveniently separate compartments. But...

It is September 1938 and during a heatwave, Europe tensely awaits the outcome of the Munich conference, where they will learn if there is to be a war. In Paris, people are waiting too, among them Mathieu, Jacques and Philippe, each wrestling with their own love affairs, doubts and angsts...

Für Antoine Roquentin, Einzelgänger und Außenseiter in einer Provinzstadt, verliert das Leben plötzlich seine Selbstverständlichkeit. Unnachsichtig um Selbsterforschung bemüht, versucht er seinem immer stärkeren Ekel vor Dingen und Menschen auf den Grund zu gehen. Die Erfahrungen, Empfindungen und Visionen des Helden dieses ersten und bedeutendsten Romans des Existentialismus gaben Anstöße...

Huis clos (pice jouée en 1944) vise donner de l´enfer une image o toute notion de bien ou de mal est exclue: l´enfer c´est les autres. Il s´agit sans doute de la pice la plus typique de Sartre, comme l´affirme de Boisdeffre. Dans Les mouches, Oreste pour sauver Electre et...

Sartre portrays the emotional and intellectual impact of the fall of France on one group of citizens.