Private Sartre
John Sturrock, 7 February 1985
War Diaries: Notebooks from a Phoney War 1939-40
by Jean-Paul Sartre and Quentin Hoare.
Verso, 366 pp., £14.95, November 1984,0 86091 087 3 Show More
by Jean-Paul Sartre and Quentin Hoare.
Verso, 366 pp., £14.95, November 1984,
“... as yet unrepentant individualist lacks both the servitude and the grandeur it once held for Alfred de Vigny, it does offer him the rare opportunities of exile, from his familiars in Paris, from teaching philosophy, from going after women. The sudden impoverishment of his external life prompts him to look within, to enjoy a happy, voluble season of ... ”