Jean-Paul Sartre (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)

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Around the time that he published Nausea, Jean-Paul Sartre drew considerable attention as a promising writer of short fiction with the stories collected in Le Mur (1939; The Wall and Other Stories, 1948). Trained as a philosopher, Sartre went on to define and develop his concept of existentialism in L’Être et le néant (1943; Being and Nothingness, 1956), turning also to the theater with such famous plays as Les Mouches (1943; The Flies, 1946), Huis clos (1944; No Exit, 1946), and Les...

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