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War Diaries: Notebooks from a Phoney War, 1939-40

By Jean-Paul Sartre

Book information

Publisher
Verso
Year
1999
ISBN
1859842380, 9781859842386
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
10 MB (10829665 bytes)
Pages
388\377
Time added
2011-04-18 11:31:18

Description

During the phoney 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 make a series of notes on philosophy, literature, politics and autobiography that anticipate the themes of his later masterpieces, and often surpass them in literary verve and directness. These War Diaries form a portrait of Sartre in his most intense and brilliant phase. With them the twentieth century's most remarkable and public philosopher has provided us with a fitting posthumous monument to his honesty and creativity.

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