ジャン＝ポール・サルトル

『嘔吐』は実存主義者の小説家サルトルが1938年に著した小説である。大学教授であった頃の作品で、彼の著作の中で最も良く知られるものの1つである。カフカの影響を受けているとされる。原題は直訳すれば「吐き気」を意味する。1938年4月の出版に際し、サルトルによる当初のタイトル「メランコリア」は退けられ、ガストン・ガリマール案出の書名で落ち着いた。 ル・アーヴルに似た街で、ある絶望した研究者が事物や境遇によって彼自身の自我を定義する能力や理性的・精神的な自由が侵されているという確信に至り、吐き気を感じさせられる様子が描かれている。 …

4 plays about an existential portrayal of Hell, the reworking of the Electra-Orestes story, the conflict of a young intellectual torn between theory and conflict and an arresting attack on American racism. An existential portrayal of Hell, the reworking of the Electra-Orestes story, the conflict of a young …

The first novel of Sartre's monumental Roads to Freedom series, The Age of Reason is set in 1938 and tells of Mathieu, a French professor of philosophy who is obsessed with the idea of freedom. As the shadows of the Second World War draw closer -- even as his personal life is complicated by his mistress's pregnancy -- …

『存在と無 - 現象学的存在論の試み - 』は、フランスの哲学者ジャン＝ポール・サルトルの哲学的主著であり、20世紀に一躍、実存主義ブームを巻き起こした著作としても有名である。

One of Sartre’s greatest existentialist works of fiction, The Wall contains the only five short stories he ever wrote. Set during the Spanish Civil War, the title story crystallizes the famous philosopher’s existentialism. 'The Wall', the lead story in this collection, introduces three political prisoners on the night …

The full French text of Sartre's novel is accompanied by French-English vocabulary. Notes and a detailed introduction in English put the work in its social and historical context.

Jean-Paul Sartre's famous autobiography of his first ten years has been widely compared to Rousseau's Confessions. Written when he was fifty-nine years old, The Words is a masterpiece of self-analysis. Sartre the philosopher, novelist and playwright brings to his own childhood the same rigor of honesty and insight he …

The Wretched of the Earth is a 1961 book by Frantz Fanon, a psychiatric and psychologic analysis of the dehumanising effects of colonization upon the individual, and the nation, from which derive the broader social, cultural, and political implications inherent to establishing a social movement for the decolonization …

Existentialism and Humanism is a 1946 philosophical work by Jean-Paul Sartre. Widely considered one of the defining texts of the Existentialist movement, the book is based on a lecture called "Existentialism is a Humanism" that Sartre gave at Club Maintenant in Paris, on October 29, 1945.