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War Diaries

Notebooks from a Phony War 1939-40

By Jean-Paul Sartre
Translated by Quintin Hoare

By Jean-Paul Sartre
Translated by Quintin Hoare

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Jan 16, 2012 | 392 Pages

War Diaries by Jean-Paul Sartre
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About War Diaries

During the phony war that preceded the invasion of France, between late 1939 and the summer of 1940, the young Jean-Paul Sartre was stationed in his native Alsace as part of a meteorological unit. He used his considerable periods of spare time, between mundane duties like watching weather balloons, to make a series of notes on philosophy, literature, politics, history and autobiography that anticipate the themes of his later masterpieces, and often surpass them in literary verve and directness. These War Diaries form a portrait of Sartre in his most intense and brilliant phase. With them the twentieth century’s most remarkable and public philosopher has provided us with a fitting posthumous monument to his honest and creativity.

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Product Details

Category: Philosophy | Biography & Memoir

Paperback | $15.95
Published by Verso
Jan 16, 2012 | 392 Pages | 5-1/5 x 7-4/5 | ISBN 9781844677849

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“Whatever you value in Sartre … the notebooks add substantially to his achievement.”—The Times

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