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When Cuban Premier Fidel Castro, the Caribbean's No. 1 nihilist, recently invited France's No. 1 existentialist, Playwright Jean-Paul Sartre, down for a look-see, Sartre was only too happy to go. The beretful of observations he brought back made strange reading in Paris's big (circ. 1,400,000), dead-center daily, France-Soir...
Apart from these personal matters, the merger joins two impressive publishing lists. Knopf (1959 sales: more than $4,000,000) has an outstanding array of dead authors-Thomas Mann, Gide, Willa Gather, Camus, Kafka, Sigrid Undset, H. L. Mencken-but is a little spottier on contemporaries, e.g., Jean-Paul Sartre, Elizabeth Bowen. John Hersey. John Updike. Random House (1959 sales: more than $12 million) has the late Eugene O'Neill and Sinclair Lewis, as well as Faulkner. John O'Hara, Robert Penn Warren, Truman Capote, Isak Dinesen, Irwin Shaw, James Michener...
...place in the world except Cuba where the Negro can go in the wintertime with absolutely no discrimination." Jack Paar (who paid his own way down) deplores the "untruthful things I've read about what was happening in Cuba. This man Castro is beloved by these people." Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre called the Cuban revolution "the most original I have known" and dismissed the U.S. as a "headless nation...
...high priest and priestess of French existentialism, Authors Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone (Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter) de Beauvoir, once great and good friends but now only good fellow travelers, stopped over briefly in New York City after a visit to Cuba. Simone seemed entranced: "We found a real democracy in Cuba. It is something really wonderful. Castro is a genius. He is my idol!" Had she seen any Reds lurking about? "I found no Communist influence in Cuba." Sartre tempered his enthusiasm: "I am totally in agreement with what is going on in Cuba...
...promise quickly tarnished. Camus' friend, Jean-Paul Sartre, preached his dreary mixture of Marxism and Existentialism; Camus continued to describe the absurd. It was for him a time of "solitary struggle," when all the forces of the old Resistance were falling apart. When Combat seemed in danger of being compromised, Camus quit his job. "He wanted politics with clean hands," explains a former colleague, and many took Camus as symbol of the "betrayed" liberation...