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Book Summary of What is Literature ?
Jean-Paul Sartre was one of the most important philosophical and political thinker of the twentieth century. His writings had a potency chat was irresistible to the intellectual scene that swept post-war Europe, and have left a vital inheritance to contemporary thought. The central tenet of the Existentialist movement which he helped to found, whereby God is replaced by an ethical self, proved hugely attractive to a generation that had seen the horrors of Nazism, and provoked a revolution in post-war thought and literature. In What is Literature?, Sartre the novelist and Sartre the philosopher combine to address the phenomenon of literature, exploring why we read, and why we write.
About the Author
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-80). The foremost French thinker of the early post-war years. His books, which include Being and Nothingness. The Psychology of the Imagination, Nausea, The age of reason and Iron in the soul, have exerted enormous influence in philosophy, literature, politics and cultural studies.
Table of Contents
Introduction by David Caute
Foreword
What is Writing?
Why Write?
For Whom Does One Write
Situation of the Writer in 1947
Appendix: Writing for One`s Age. isbn
9780415254045
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Pages : 280
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