Jean-Paul Sartre, The Words Autobiography, 1964 1st / 1st U.S. Edition, w/ DJ

Description: Jean-Paul Sartre, The Words. New York: George Braziller, 1964. First Edition, First Printing, Hardcover with dust jacket protected in archival sleeve; 255 pages; measures 8-1/4 x 5-3/4 inches. Black cloth, white and lavender lettering and decoration on the spine; blue/black top stain. A very nice copy. Please see the pictures for more information and detail as to contents and condition. NOTE: From Wikipedia: Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (1905 – 1980) was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, political activist, biographer, and literary critic. He was one of the key figures in the philosophy of existentialism and phenomenology, and one of the leading figures in 20th-century French philosophy and Marxism. His work has also influenced sociology, critical theory, post-colonial theory, and literary studies, and continues to influence these disciplines. Sartre was also noted for his open relationship with prominent feminist and fellow existentialist philosopher and writer Simone de Beauvoir. Together, Sartre and de Beauvoir challenged the cultural and social assumptions and expectations of their upbringings, which they considered bourgeois, in both lifestyle and thought. The conflict between oppressive, spiritually destructive conformity (mauvaise foi, literally, "bad faith") and an "authentic" way of "being" became the dominant theme of Sartre's early work, a theme embodied in his principal philosophical work Being and Nothingness (L'Être et le Néant, 1943). Sartre's introduction to his philosophy is his work Existentialism and Humanism (L'existentialisme est un humanisme, 1946), originally presented as a lecture. In 1964 Sartre renounced literature in a witty and sardonic account of the first ten years of his life, Les Mots (The Words). The book is an ironic counterblast to Marcel Proust, whose reputation had unexpectedly eclipsed that of André Gide (who had provided the model of littérature engagée for Sartre's generation). Literature, Sartre concluded, functioned ultimately as a bourgeois substitute for real commitment in the world. He was awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature despite attempting to refuse it, saying that he always declined official honours and that "a writer should not allow himself to be turned into an institution". * * * This book comes from the estate of Maine poet and avid book collector Charles G. Wilson (1898-1967), who lived in Kingfield Maine, had unusually good taste in books, and took uncommonly good care of them.

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