Jean-Paul Sartre: Hated Conscience of His Century, Volume 1: Protestant or Protester?
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| Rating | : | 4.57 (736 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0226287971 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-04-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Well- it's THE AUTHORIZED BIO Sartre chose Gerassi" according to Campbell Roark. One of the best sartre bios out there (and the official one). Volume One- It has the dual fortune of being both a quick read and a decent intro to Sartre's life and thought. It also calls him on his *ish*, which is rare for biographers. (Gerassi's parents were Spanish -ok his mom wasn't but married into it- friends of Sartre and Simone De Beauvoir, in fact both his mother and father as well as Jean hismelf became the basis for characters in sartre's 'Roads to Freedom' Series of novels).While not as massive a compendium as the Annn. Ed Facile said a great bio of one of the greats of the "a great bio of one of the greats of the 20th C." according to Ed Facile. I don't know what's wrong with the next reviewer (I suspect it's Anne Coulter with a fake moustache- Hi Anne!). Yes, Sarte supported some bad people, and some not so worthy causes- but then if we are to judge the Soviets and China for their victims- does that mean turning a blind eye to the countless dead in Argentina, Guatemala, Chile, El salvador, Columbia, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Iran, and God knows how manyother places where regimes were overturned and dictators installed and bombs dropped either with US Aid/money/training or. 0th C.. I don't know what's wrong with the next reviewer (I suspect it's Anne Coulter with a fake moustache- Hi Anne!). Yes, Sarte supported some bad people, and some not so worthy causes- but then if we are to judge the Soviets and China for their victims- does that mean turning a blind eye to the countless dead in Argentina, Guatemala, Chile, El salvador, Columbia, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Iran, and God knows how manyother places where regimes were overturned and dictators installed and bombs dropped either with US Aid/money/training or. "Misleading Title" according to reading man. Before buying this book, you should know that it's not a biography in the usual sense, even though Sartre, who was a friend of Gerassi, chose him as his "official biographer". In fact, Gerassi explains in his preface that he'd written 700 pages when he discovered that Annie Cohen had published a full-dress bio of about the same length that became a best-seller in France. Though Cohen's was not the kind of "objective" biography that Gerassi intended to write, he abandoned his manuscript with a sense of relief (he was finding the bu
Gerassi had access to all of Sartre's files, unpublished manuscripts, and extensive notes for planned but undelivered lectures. Sartre trusted the integrity of Gerassi so completely that he considered Gerassi's biography to be the continuation of his own autobiography, Les mots. 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. As a personal friend, Gerassi writes with advantages shared by no other biographer of Sartre.. Only John Gerassi—the "non-godson" of Sartre, an atheist—was hon
His many books include The Great Fear in Latin America, The Boys of Boise, Fidel Castro, The Coming of the New International and The Premature Antifacist.. From 1956 to 1966, he was a journalist for Time, Newsweek, The New York Times, and Inter-Press Service. John Gerassi is professor of political science at the Graduate Center and Queens College of the City University of New York
Most remarkable about this brilliantly original biography, the first half of a two-volume opus, is that it is authorized: Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir cooperated with the author from the early 1970s onward. Photos. Sartre's life is shown to have been an existential drama--he lived his childhood as a "fraud," fathered by a "small, sickly Catholic technocrat" who raised him as a girl; small and physically ugly, the mature Sartre constantly seduced attractive women. Writing with energetic immediacy, the author argues that Sartre "had never pretended to be a resistant during the war," and