(H/B) CRITICAL ESSAYS

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Critical Essays (Situations I) contains essays on literature and philosophy from a highly formative period of French philosopher and leading existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre's life, the years between 1938 and 1946. This period is particularly interesting because it is before Sartre published the magnum opus that would solidify his name as a philosopher, Being and Nothingness. Instead, during this time Sartre was emerging as one of France's most promising young novelists and playwrights-he had already published Nausea, The Age of Reason, The Flies, Collected here are Sartre's experiments in reimagining the idea and structure of the essay. Among the distinguished writers he analyzes are Francis Ponge, Georges Bataille, Vladimir Nabokov, Maurice Blanchot, and, of course, Albert Camus, whose novel The Stranger Sartre endeavours to explain in these pages. Critical Essays (Situations I) also contains a famous attack on the Catholic novelist Francois Mauriac, studies of the great American literary iconoclasts Faulkner and Dos Passos, and brief but insightful essays on aspects of the philosophical writings of Husserl and Descartes.
This new translation by Chris Turner reinvigorates the original skill and voice of Sartre's work and will be essential reading for fans of Sartre and the many writers and works he explores. (From the publisher)

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Sartoris by William Faulkner
On John Dos Passos and 1919
The Conspiracy by Paul Nizan
A Fundamental Idea of Husserl's Phenomenology: Intentionality
Monsieur Francois Mauriac and Freedom
Despair by Vladimir Nabokov
Denis de Rougemont: L'Amour et l'occident
On The Sound and the Fury: Temporality in Faulkner
Monsieur Jean Giraudoux and the Philosophy of Aristotle: On Choix des Elues
The Outsider Explained
Aminadab: Or The Fantastic Considered as a Language
A New Mystic
There and Back
Man and Things
Man Bound Hand and Foot: Notes on Jules Renard's Journal
Cartesian Freedom