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Słowa

Słowa

Aleksander Stefanowski
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In the past twenty years, Jean-Paul Sartre has become the best-known and most influential French writer alive. As a philosopher, as a novelist, as a playwright, as the author of filmscripts, as the editor of Les Temps Modernes, as a man who has never been afraid to commit himself to the moral and political as well as the literary life of his own times, he is unique. Not since Voltaire has Western civilization produced so humane, manifold, and boldly "engaged" a man of letters.

Now, at fifty-nine, Sartre has undertaken his autobiography, bringing to his own childhood the same rigor of honesty and insight which he has applied so brilliantly in earlier books to Baudelaire and Jean Genet. "Directed to the heart as well as to the intellect," the result is like nothing else in the Sartre canon, and in France, where The Words has headed the best-seller list since its publication in January, it has already been accorded a place beside that other masterpiece of self-analysis, Rousseau's Confessions.

There have been child prodigies before, but few have been so blissfully happy as Sartre at 10. Born into a gentle, book-loving family , and raised by a widowed mother and doting grandparents, his childhood might be described as one long love affair with the printed word. Half a century later, he can write as passionately of his grandfather's library as Mark Twain could of the Mississippi River.

But ultimately, Sartre is exploring and evaluating the whole use of books and language in human experience. It was the great illusion of life, he argues, that he grew up loving books, and taking it for granted that a courageous and productive literary career could do something positive on behalf of humanity's total struggle. If he eventually came to think otherwise, nonetheless his childhood joy in words, and his lifetime's commitment to their just and purposeful use, have remained powerful enough to sustain him.
Language
Polish
Pages
204
Format
Paperback
Release
January 10, 1964

Słowa

Aleksander Stefanowski
0/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
In the past twenty years, Jean-Paul Sartre has become the best-known and most influential French writer alive. As a philosopher, as a novelist, as a playwright, as the author of filmscripts, as the editor of Les Temps Modernes, as a man who has never been afraid to commit himself to the moral and political as well as the literary life of his own times, he is unique. Not since Voltaire has Western civilization produced so humane, manifold, and boldly "engaged" a man of letters.

Now, at fifty-nine, Sartre has undertaken his autobiography, bringing to his own childhood the same rigor of honesty and insight which he has applied so brilliantly in earlier books to Baudelaire and Jean Genet. "Directed to the heart as well as to the intellect," the result is like nothing else in the Sartre canon, and in France, where The Words has headed the best-seller list since its publication in January, it has already been accorded a place beside that other masterpiece of self-analysis, Rousseau's Confessions.

There have been child prodigies before, but few have been so blissfully happy as Sartre at 10. Born into a gentle, book-loving family , and raised by a widowed mother and doting grandparents, his childhood might be described as one long love affair with the printed word. Half a century later, he can write as passionately of his grandfather's library as Mark Twain could of the Mississippi River.

But ultimately, Sartre is exploring and evaluating the whole use of books and language in human experience. It was the great illusion of life, he argues, that he grew up loving books, and taking it for granted that a courageous and productive literary career could do something positive on behalf of humanity's total struggle. If he eventually came to think otherwise, nonetheless his childhood joy in words, and his lifetime's commitment to their just and purposeful use, have remained powerful enough to sustain him.
Language
Polish
Pages
204
Format
Paperback
Release
January 10, 1964

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