Principal Works
Short Fiction
Le Mur [The Wall and Other Stories; also published as Intimacy and Other Stories] 1939
Other Major Works
L'imagination [Imagination: A Psychological Critique] (philosophy) 1936
La nausée [Nausea; also published as The Diary of Antoine Requentin] 1938
Esquisse d'une théorie des émotions [The Emotions: Outline of a Theory; also published as Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions] (philosophy) 1939
L'imaginaire:Psychologie phénoménologique de l'imagination [The Psychology of Imagination] (philosophy) 1940
Les mouches [The Flies] (drama) 1942
L'être et le néant: Essai d'ontologie phénoménologique [Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology] 1943
Huis clos [The Vicious Circle; also produced as No Exit] (drama) 1944
*Les chemins de la liberté. 3 vols. [The Roads of Freedom] (novels) 1945-49
L'existentialisme est un humanisme [Existentialism; also published as Existentialism and Humanism] (philosophy) 1946
Morts sans sépulture [Men without Shadows; also produced as The Victors] (drama) 1946
Baudelaire [Baudelaire] (biography and criticism) 1947
Les jeux sont faits [The Chips Are Down] (screenplay) 1947
†Situations. 10 vols. (essays) 1947-76
Les mains sales [Crime Passionnel; also published as Dirty Hands] (drama) 1948
Le diable et le bon dieu [Lucifer and the Lord; also published as The Devil and the Good Lord, and Two Other Plays] (drama) 1951
Saint Genet, comédien et martyr [Saint Genet: Actor and Martyr] (biography and criticism) 1952
Les séquestrés d'Altona [Loser Wins; also published as The Condemned of Altona] (drama) 1959
Les mots [The Words] (autobiography) 1963
L'idiot de la famille: Gustave Flaubert de 1821 à 1857 [The Family Idiot: Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1857] (biography and criticism) 1971-72
Le scenario Freud [The Freud Scenario] (essays) 1984
The War Diaries of Jean-Paul Sartre (diaries) 1985
*The three volumes of this sequence are L'age de raison (1945; The Age of Reason), Le sursis (1945; The Reprieve), and La mort dans l'âme(1949; Iron in the Soul; also published as Troubled Sleep).
†The first volume of this series is Critique de la raison dialectique, Volume I: Théorie des ensembles pratiques (1960; Critique of Dialectical Reason: Theory of Practical Ensembles). Volume II contains the essay "Qu'est-ce que la littérature?" (1948; What is Literature?; also published as Literature and Existentialism).
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