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...Abysses is drawn from a celebrated French murder case of 1933, which also inspired Jean Genet's drama The Maids. Selected by Andre Malraux as France's entry in the 1963 Cannes film festival, it arrives in the U.S. trailing breathless encomiums from Jean-Paul Sartre ("Cinema has given us its foremost tragedy"), and Simone de Beauvoir ("One of the greatest films I have ever seen"). Since such illustrious, finely honed sensibilities are not easily ignored, the ordinary moviegoer probably ought to read what has been written about the movie instead of actually sitting through it. Only cultists...
...WORDS, by Jean-Paul Sartre. Always a brilliant but negative thinker, Sartre has focused his critical power on himself as a child and dislikes what he sees. From this graceful, simple memoir, the cast of a powerful, angry mind that was to reject all symbols of tradition, from God to the Nobel Prize, can easily be traced...
...then decides rather casually to turn to his ne'er-do-well chum (Jean-Paul Belmondo...
...present notoriety annoys me," wrote Jean-Paul Sartre puckishly last year. "I've lost the chance of dying un known." That became even more of a certainty last week when the Swedish Academy bestowed on him the 1964 Nobel Prize for Literature -an honor he didn't want. Unless he changes his mind, which is unlikely, he will be the first winner to turn down the world's loftiest literary honor.* Since, as the Swedish Academy pointed out, the award stands whether the recipient formally accepts it or not, Sartre is in the most enviable position...
...have always declined official distinctions," said Sartre, explaining that a writer who accepts an honor risks institutionalization and puts his reader un der unfair pressures: "It's not the same thing if I sign 'Jean-Paul Sartre' or if I sign 'Jean-Paul Sartre, Nobel Prizewinner.' ",. Displaying his long on-and-off Communist sympathies, he 'went on to complain that the Nobel seemed to be reserved only for Westerners or dissident Eastern-bloc writers...