Jean-Paul Sartre: Hated Conscience of His Century, Volume 1: Protestant or Protester?

Gerassi, John

ISBN 10: 0226287971 / ISBN 13: 9780226287973

Published by University Of Chicago Press, 1989

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Signed and inscribed by the author. A very clean copy with mild shelf wear to the covers and dust jacket.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Jean-Paul Sartre: Hated Conscience of His Century, Volume 1: Protestant or Protester?
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226287971
• ISBN 13: 9780226287973
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Psychology & Psychiatry

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Synopsis

Countless biographers have tried to unveil the real Jean-Paul Sartre without his consent or cooperation. Only John Gerassi—the "non-godson" of Sartre, an atheist—was honored with the responsibility of being Sartre's official biographer. After drafting the commission with Sartre on the back of a menu at La Coupole, Gerassi recorded over one hundred hours of interviews with him between 1974 and 1979, and another hundred hours with Sartre's friends, colleagues, and enemies. Gerassi also immersed himself in Sartre's literary, philosophical, and personal writings. Gerassi had access to all of Sartre's files, unpublished manuscripts, and extensive notes for planned but undelivered lectures. Simone de Beauvoir gave many of Sartre's unpublished letters to Gerassi as well. Sartre trusted the integrity of Gerassi so completely that he considered Gerassi's biography to be the continuation of his own autobiography,Les mots. As a personal friend, Gerassi writes with advantages shared by no other biographer of Sartre.

About the Author

John Gerassi is professor of political science at the Graduate Center and Queens College of the City University of New York. From 1956 to 1966, he was a journalist forTime, Newsweek, The New York Times, and Inter-Press Service. His many books includeThe Great Fear in Latin America, The Boys of Boise, Fidel Castro, The Coming of the New Internationaland The Premature Antifacist.