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NAUSEA (238 pp.)-Jean-Paul Sartre -New Directions...
...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...
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...
...does not support her own democratic institutions?" Albert Camus (The Plague) is one of Davis' most active and effective workers. Andre Gide has lent the movement his considerable prestige, and so have the British food expert Sir John Boyd Orr (elevated this week to the peerage), Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre and Orchestra Conductor Sir Adrian Boult...
...Victors (translated from the French of Jean-Paul Sartre by Thornton Wilder; produced by New Stages, Inc.) is sponsored by the same experimental group that last season made a bandbox hit, and then a Broadway hit, of Sartre's The Respectful Prostitute. The new production is by no means so likely to triumph at the box office: it is very little more convincing than The Respectful Prostitute was, and it is a good deal less exciting and scandalous...