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Jean-Paul Sartre

France : Renowned philosopher-author

Born : 1905        Died : 1980

Jean-Paul Sartre was a great intellectual who gave this world anew and j volatile philosophy. Sartre rejected all the established norms and was a rebel in thoughts and actions. As time passed, his thoughts became all the more revolutionary. He opposed wearing a tie and the system of marriage. During the Second World War, he worked as a soldier for ‘ peace. Sartre had the courage of his convictions and severely criticised the US and USSR’s aggression in Vietnam, Hungary and Czechoslovakia, respectively. 

This great thinker and writer was born in France in the year 1905.  From his childhood, he showed ample signs of being an intellectual. The Colossal destruction during the Second World War greatly affected him. In 1940-41, he was imprisoned in a Nazi camp. Later, Sartre joined a t resistance group called Socialism et Liberte and also edited a magazine. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1964, which he labelled as a `sack of potatoes’ and rejected it.

Sartre lived in with his writer friend Simone de Beauvoire and remained unmarried. Simone wrote a lot of excellent books like The Second Sex, Lace Mandarins ,The Women Destroyed, She Came to Stay, La Belle Images, Memories of a Beautiful Daughter, The Force of Circumstances and Prime and Life.

Amongst Sartre’ s immortal books, the following may be mentioned, Words (autobiography), Being and Nothingness, Nausea, The Age of Reason, Iron in the Soul, The Flies, The Devil and the Good Lord, Reprieve, No Exit, The Respectable Prostitute, Critique, Situations, Saint Janet, Comedian et Martyr, Keen, Roads to Freedom and Between Existentialism and Materialism. Kremlin and Vatican authorities banned many of his books.