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Jean-Paul Sartre


Born
in Paris, France
June 21, 1905

Died
April 15, 1980

Genre
Philosophy, Literature & Fiction, Politics

Influences
Georg Hegel, Karl Marx, Martin Heidegger, Kierkegaard, Edmund Husserl, ...more


Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic, considered a leading figure in 20th-century French philosophy and Marxism. Sartre was one of the key figures in the philosophy of existentialism (and phenomenology). His work has influenced sociology, critical theory, post-colonial theory, and literary studies. He was awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature despite attempting to refuse it, saying that he always declined official honors and that "a writer should not allow himself to be turned into an institution."
Sartre held an open relationship with prominent feminist and fellow existentialist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir. Together, Sartre ...more

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Average rating: 4.0 · 482,434 ratings · 28,681 reviews · 1,119 distinct works • Similar authors
Nausea
3.93 avg rating — 142,969 ratings — published 1938 — 449 editions
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No Exit
4.11 avg rating — 47,793 ratings — published 1944
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Existentialism is a Humanism
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3.98 avg rating — 47,899 ratings — published 1946 — 3 editions
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Being and Nothingness
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3.99 avg rating — 35,498 ratings — published 1943 — 208 editions
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No Exit and Three Other Plays
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4.08 avg rating — 30,239 ratings — published 1947 — 56 editions
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The Wall
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4.07 avg rating — 27,428 ratings — published 1939 — 221 editions
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The Age of Reason (Roads to...
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3.99 avg rating — 16,351 ratings — published 1945 — 214 editions
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Huis clos: suivi de Les Mou...
4.04 avg rating — 15,312 ratings — published 1946 — 25 editions
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3.73 avg rating — 10,494 ratings — published 1963 — 227 editions
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Les Mains sales
3.98 avg rating — 6,808 ratings — published 1946 — 28 editions
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“If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre
tags: loneliness, solitude
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“Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre
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“Hell is—other people!”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit
tags: garcin, hell, people
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Polls

February 2022 New School Classic Read Poll

Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre, 1938, 178 pages
 
  57 votes, 27.4%

Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis, 1946, 335 pages
 
  38 votes, 18.3%

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, 1905, 335 pages
 
  35 votes, 16.8%

Terms of Endearment by Larry McMurtry, 1975, 410 pages
 
  28 votes, 13.5%

To the North by Elizabeth Bowen, 1932, 320 pages
 
  20 votes, 9.6%

 
  19 votes, 9.1%

 
  11 votes, 5.3%

208 total votes
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