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...public, the writing career of Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre has unreeled itself both forward and backward in the past five years. His latest plays (or what is left of them after translation) have been produced in Manhattan, while publishers have busied themselves resurrecting his prewar fiction. His second book, The Wall, a volume of short stories first published in France in 1939, was brought out in the U.S. last year (TIME, Dec. 27). It is now followed by his first and most famous novel, Nausea, a book that made a splash among Paris intellectuals in 1938. Sartre's recent...
...response to being alive. Descartes, who titillated the 17th Century intellectual world, thought he was creating a new philosophy on St. Augustine's premise: "I think, therefore I am." Sartre's fundamental observation, an overstatement of something found in the writings of Kierkegaard and the German existentialist, Heidegger, may be paraphrased as "I exist and find it sickening." The experience recounted in Nausea is one of deep physical and metaphysical horror, well beyond the ennui, already sufficiently sick, that such French post-romantic writers as Baudelaire liked to wallow...
...Daché arrived in Manhattan with the breathless news that the women of Paris are less interested in hats than in men. The three males who crop up most in conversation when smart Parisiennes let their hair down: World Citizen Garry Davis (admired for his "courage and . . . youthful hope"), Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre (for his "unsweetened approach to modern life") and British Cinemactor James Mason ("He is just the 150% man, with ego, contrariness, even cruelty...
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...Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre speculated on the wonderful possibilities of movies: "Sherwood Anderson once called himself a liar. That was his way of saying that he was a writer, and his lies have charmed us ever since his writings began to appear . . . But he lied with words only. What tempts today's writer for the screen is that he can lie with cinematic imagery...