Les Mots (Folio) (French Edition) [Mass Market Paperback]

Jean-Paul Sartre (Author), Jean-Paul Sartre (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 2070366073 | ISBN-13: 978-2070366071 | Publication Date: December 31, 1995 | Edition: French

L’ouvrage fournit toutes les clés pour analyser l’autobiographie de Jean-Paul Sartre.
• Le résumé et les repères pour la lecture sont suivis de l’étude des problématiques essentielles, parmi lesquelles :
– Les Mots dans la vie de Sartre
– De Poulou à Sartre
– Autobiographie et roman
– Le thème du père absent
– Une « entreprise de démystification »
– Les techniques de narration.
• Ce Profil d’une œuvre comprend également quatre lectures analytiques :
– quatre extraits de la partie I des Mots.

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 210 pages
• Publisher: Gallimard; French edition (December 31, 1995)
• Language: French
• ISBN-10: 2070366073
• ISBN-13: 978-2070366071
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.3 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #904,604 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Novelist, playwright, and biographer Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-80) is widely considered one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century. His major works include "No Exit," "Nausea," "The Wall," "The Age of Reason," "Critique of Dialectical Reason," "Being and Nothingness," and "Roads to Freedom," an allegory of man's search for commitment, and not, as the man at the off-licence says, an everyday story of French country folk.

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This review is from: Les Mots (Folio) (French Edition) (Mass Market Paperback)

"les Mots", or "Words", is Jean-Paul Sartre's autobiography about his childood, with a strong emphasis on literature; an emphasis which is only natural, since little Sartre grew up with them before he began writing himself (pun intended).

Accordingly, the book is divided into two parts: "To Read" and "To Write".

If you can read French, then please do yourself a favour and read this wonderful text. It is so good, it actually made me enjoy writing French prose, which is something no other text before ever did, and about the only other French text that I can remember which had an effect of "wow, that's well written!" on me was "les Liaisons Dangereuses" by Laclos.

"Les Mots" is a thrilling read, with insights so profound and witty that I enjoyed every page of it. I generally love Sartre's writings, and this is no exception; it just may have a little something more, in the sense that, for all I know, it is the only explicitly autobiographic book he wrote.

I can't recommend this book enough.