Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic, considered a leading figure in 20th-century French philosophy and See more

Early life
Jean-Paul Sartre was born on 21 June 1905 in Paris as the only child of Jean-Baptiste Sartre, an officer of the French Navy, and Anne-Marie (Schweitzer). When Sartre was two years old, his father died of an illness, which he … See more

Sartre wrote successfully in a number of literary modes and made major contributions to literary criticism and literary biography. … See more

Novels and Short Story Collection
• Nausea / La nausée (1938)
• The Wall / Le mur (1939) – collection of 5 short stories See more

Sartre's primary idea is that people, as humans, are "condemned to be free". He explained, "This may seem paradoxical because … See more

While the broad focus of Sartre's life revolved around the notion of human freedom, he began a sustained intellectual participation in … See more

In 1993, French author Bianca Lamblin (originally Bianca Bienenfeld) wrote in her book Mémoires d'une jeune fille dérangée (Memoirs of a deranged girl, published in English under the … See more