Full name: Sartre: A Life

Author: Annie Cohen-Solal Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9781565849747 1565849744

One of the major accomplishments of Cohen-Solal's book is not only to place Sartre in the context of history, but to reopen the question of his role and to reassess the full import of his literary and political accomplishments. Discovering untold aspects of Sartre's private and political life, Cohen-Solal weaves together all the elements of an exceptional career. From the description of his previously unknown father to the painful last moments of Sartre's own declining years, this is biography on the grandest scale. Similar books: Isaiah Berlin by Michael Ignatieff The Passion of Michel Foucault by Jim Miller Saint Genet by Jean-Paul Sartre Michel Foucault by Didier Eribon I Am Dynamite! by Sue Prideaux Albert Camus by Olivier Todd Nietzsche in Turin by Lesley Chamberlain Hannah Arendt by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl Ludwig Wittgenstein by Ray Monk Spinoza by Steven Nadler Socrates by Paul Johnson Balzac by Stefan Zweig Victor Hugo by Graham Robb Samuel Beckett by Anthony Cronin Aldous Huxley by Nicholas Murray