Jean-Paul Sartre

8 books on BookJumpr, mentioned 11 times in other books.

Books by Jean-Paul Sartre

The Borrower on Being and Nothingness: “‘Being and Nothingness’! You could give them little Sartre badges!”
Against Interpretation and Other Essays on Being and Nothingness: “the sections on the body and on concrete relations with others of Sartre's Being and Nothingness”
The Magus on Huis Clos: “'What was that Sartre play we saw?' 'Huis Clos.' 'This is Huis even closer.'”
On Women on La Mort dans l'âme: “In La Mort dans l'âme (1949), the third novel in his four-part Les Chemins de la liberté, Sartre describes one of his protagonists experiencing the entry of the German army into Paris in 1940...”
Why Read the Classics on Nausea: “Ponge essay: La Nausée, compared”
Babel Tower on Nausea (La Nausée): “'She has chosen Death in Venice, La Nausée, The Castle, all of which are still to come.'”
Babel Tower on Saint Genet: “'like Jean-Paul Sartre's Saint Genet, in his book of that name' — an expert witness compares Jude Mason to Genet.”
Against Interpretation and Other Essays on Saint Genet: Discussed at length in Sontag's own essay on Sartre's book.
Notes on Camp on Saint Genet: “Sartre's gloss on this in Saint Genet is: 'Elegance is the quality of conduct which transforms the greatest amount of being into appearing.'”
Babel Tower on The Age of Reason: “Same burned-books list, grouped with Camus, Golding and Lawrence as mid-century fiction: '...La Chute, The Age of Reason, Lord of the Flies, Free Fall, Women in Love, Howards End.'”