Name: The Words (Slova)
Brand: AST
SKU: 9086141366574
Price: 14.03 GBP
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Author: Jean-Paul Sartre
ISBN: 9785170956937

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'Words' (1964) is an autobiographical novel by Jean-Paul Sartre. The author openly recounts his childhood, family and friends, his first encounter with books, and his gradual realization of his calling to become a writer: 'I had found my religion: books began to seem more important to me than anything else.'
Sartre writes wittily and sarcastically about France in the second quarter of the 20th century, the writers and books fashionable at the time, but he is no less critical of himself, revealing to the reader his own childhood fantasies and delusions, which later impacted his adult life.

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JEAN-PAUL CHARLES AYMARD SARTRE was a French philosopher, a representative of atheistic existentialism, writer, playwright, essayist, and teacher. He was the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate (he refused the prize).

Jean-Paul Sartre was born in Paris and was the only child in the family. When Jean-Paul was only 15 months old, his father died. The family moved to his grandparents’ house in Meudon.

Sartre was educated at the Lycées of La Rochelle, graduated from the École Normale Supérieure in Paris with a dissertation in philosophy, and trained at the French Institute in Berlin (1934).…

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