BOOK 116: WORDS: JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
The book, consisting of Sartre
distancing himself from writing and making his farewells to literature was very
successful for the author and was hailed nearly unanimously as a "literary
success" In November of the same year, 1964, he refused the Nobel Prize
for Literature awarded for his work, described as "rich in
ideas and filled with the spirit of freedom and the quest for truth, has
exerted a far-reaching influence on our age."
MY VERDICT: I enjoyed the second
half of this book (the ‘writing’ section) much more than the first half. I was a little bored with the whole history
of Sartre’s family and found it unnecessary, however I did enjoy discovering
the relationships he had with his Grandfather and Mother. It has been a while since I read Nausea and
even though Sartre makes a comment about his most recent work being his best I
thought Nausea was better.
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