Sartre

[sahr-truh, sahrt, sar-tr^uh]

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Jean-Paul 1905–80, French philosopher, novelist, and dramatist: declined 1964 Nobel Prize in literature.

Sartre

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Jean-Paul (ʒɑ̃pɔl). 1905–80, French philosopher, novelist, and dramatist; chief French exponent of atheistic existentialism. His works include the philosophical essay Being and Nothingness (1943), the novels Nausea (1938) and Les Chemins de la liberté (1945–49), a trilogy, and the plays Les Mouches (1943), Huis clos (1944), and Les Mains sales (1948)

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Throughout the novel, Rhys references Kant, De Beauvoir, Sartre, Virginia Woolf and Epictetus, among others, using knowledge as a balm and escape hatch.

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I was thinking about relationships between Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir and this kind of the dynamic between an intellectual couple of a certain era.

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Jean Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir were wowed by him when they finally met in Rome in 1961.

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The situation evokes both Jean-Paul Sartre’s “No Exit,” where hell is defined as other people, and a perkier than usual episode of “The Twilight Zone.”

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This matters, because the trolling tactics that Sartre identified nearly eight decades ago only have power if people give in to them.

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