![]() ![]() ![]() His first passion, and he soon decided to be a writer. ![]() Lacking companions his own age, he found “friends” exclusively in books. His mother took her young son to live at her parents' house, where she and her son were treated as “the children.” Later Sartre would describe his unnatural childhood as a spoiled and precocious boy. His father Jean-Baptiste, a naval officer, died while on a tour of duty in Indochina (then part of the French colonial empire) before Sartre was two years old. Sartre's literary and philosophical careers are inextricably bound together and are best understood in relation to one another and to their biographical and historical context.ĭefiant, Precocious Beginnings Jean-Paul Sartre was born in Paris on June 21, 1905. His relentless search for freedom gave rise to a process of existential inquiry and reflection.” Works in Biographical and Historical Context As scholar Lynn-Dianne Beene noted, “Sartre challenged not only contemporary ideas about freedom and human liberation, but also the oppression he found in Western capitalism. GENRE: Nonfiction (philosophy), novels, drama, criticismĬritique of Dialectical Reason (1960) Overviewįrench philosopher and man of letters, the versatile writer Jean-Paul Sartre ranks as the dominant influence in three decades of French intellectual life. ![]()
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