Description: Jean-Paul Sartre writes so simply that the grace of his style survives translation. His style is an indication of the clarity of his thought. His mind works with a lucidity that seems to be exclusively the gift of old or middle-aged men, men who are past the complex years when every passing skirt or newspaper article excites them. It is a beautiful simplicity, but one that exists at the expense of turbulent reality as young people know it. It cannot convey, because it does not remember, what being a child is like. The Words is not an account of an extraordinary childhood, but the extraordinary fantasy about childhood of a man who has created things with words all of his life. When it comes to recounting the events of his childhood Sartre (exactly like Genet's Lady of the Flowers when she is asked to describe the crime at her trial) sees no reason to stop describing life itself as the ultimate act of imagination. (Text courtesy of George Braziller, via The Harvard Crimson, December 6, 1964)
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Book Title: The Words
Signed: No
Ex Libris: No
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Publisher: George Braziller
Original Language: French
Item Length: 5 in
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Vintage: Yes
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Publication Year: 1964
Type: Autobiography
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Era: 1910s
Item Height: 8 in
Author: Jean-Paul Sartre
Personalized: No
Genre: World literature & Classics, French childhood
Topic: Literature
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Item Width: 1 in
Item Weight: 16 oz
Number of Pages: 255
