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Jean-Paul Sartre
author profile
born
June 21, 1905
died
April 15, 1980
gender
male
place of birth
Paris, France
genre
Nonfiction, Literature & Fiction
influences
Kant, Hegel, Marx, Dostoyevsky, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, Jaspers, De Beauvoir, Camus, Kojève, Flaubert, Céline, Merleau-Ponty
about this author
Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre, normally known simply as Jean-Paul Sartre, was a French existentialist philosopher and pioneer, dramatist and screenwriter, novelist and critic. He was a leading figure in 20th century French philosophy.
He declined the award of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his work which, rich in ideas and filled with the spirit of freedom and the quest for truth, has exerted a far-reaching influence on our age."
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No Exit and Three Other Plays by Jean-Paul Sartre avg rating 4.03 — 4,051 ratings — published 1944 26 editions |
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Nausea (New Directions Paperbook) by Jean-Paul Sartre avg rating 3.87 — 3,255 ratings — published 1938 39 editions |
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Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre avg rating 3.79 — 1,251 ratings — published 1943 25 editions |
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The Age of Reason: A Novel by Jean-Paul Sartre avg rating 3.82 — 1,062 ratings — published 1945 14 editions |
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The Wall by Jean-Paul Sartre avg rating 4.02 — 720 ratings — published 1 21 editions |
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Existentialism And Human Emotions (A Philosophical Library Book) by Jean-Paul Sartre avg rating 3.81 — 745 ratings — published 1957 4 editions |
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Existentialism Is a Humanism by Jean-Paul Sartre avg rating 3.90 — 562 ratings — published 1944 14 editions |
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The Words by Jean-Paul Sartre avg rating 3.80 — 306 ratings — published 1964 28 editions |
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The Reprieve: A Novel by Jean-Paul Sartre avg rating 3.87 — 213 ratings — published 1947 12 editions |
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Les Jeux Sont Faits by Jean-Paul Sartre avg rating 3.93 — 194 ratings — published 1947 6 editions |
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"Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
It is up to you to give [life] a meaning."
— Jean-Paul Sartre
It is up to you to give [life] a meaning."
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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