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1963 book by Jean-Paul Sartre From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Words (French: Les Mots) is the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre's 1963[1] autobiography.
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Author | Jean-Paul Sartre |
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Original title | Les Mots |
Translator | Bernard Frechtman |
Language | French |
Genre | Autobiography |
Publisher | Gallimard |
Publication date | 1963 |
Publication place | France |
Published in English | September 1964 |
Media type | Print (hardback and paperback) |
Pages | 255 |
OCLC | 455681411 |
848.91409 | |
LC Class | PQ2637 .A82 |
The text is divided into two near-equal parts entitled 'Reading' (Lire) and 'Writing' (Écrire). However, according to Philippe Lejeune, these two parts are only a façade and are not relevant to the chronological progression of the work. He considers the text to instead be divided into five parts which he calls 'acts':
The first title which Sartre thought of was Jean sans terre.[2]
The book, consisting of Sartre distancing himself from writing and making his farewells to literature, was very successful for the author and was hailed nearly unanimously as a "literary success"[citation needed]. In November of the same year, 1964, he refused the Nobel Prize for Literature awarded for his work, described as "rich in ideas and filled with the spirit of freedom and the quest for truth, [it] has exerted a far-reaching influence on our age."[3]
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