Words

Type

Book

Authors

Sartre ( Jean-Paul Sartre )

ISBN 10

0140182772

ISBN 13

9780140182774

Tags

Biographies & Memoirs, Philosophy, writers, Authors

Description

Jean-Paul Sartre's famous autobiography of his first ten years has been widely compared to Rousseau's Confessions. Written when he was fifty-nine years old, The Words is a masterpiece of self-analysis. Sartre the philosopher, novelist and playwright brings to his own childhood the same rigor of honesty and insight he applied so brilliantly to other authors. Born into a gentle, book-loving family and raised by a widowed mother and doting grandparents, he had a childhood which might be described as one long love affair with the printed word. The Words explores and evaluates the whole use of books and language in human experience. - from Amzon

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