Jean-Paul Sartre : biography

Sartre, who stated in his preface to Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth that, “To shoot down a European is to kill two birds with one stone, to destroy an oppressor and the man he oppresses at the same time: there remains a dead man and a free man”, has been criticized by Anderson and Michael Walzer for supporting the killing of European civilians by the FLN during the Algerian War. Walzer suggests that Sartre, a European, was a hypocrite for not volunteering to be killed himself. Michael Walzer

Works

Plays, screenplays, novels, and short stories

• Nausea / La nausée (1938)
• The Wall / Le mur (1939)
• Bariona / Bariona, ou le fils du tonnerre (1940)
• The Flies / Les mouches (1943)
• No Exit / Huis clos (1944)
• Typhus, wr. ’44, pub. ’07; adapted as The Proud and the Beautiful
• The Age of Reason / L’âge de raison (1945)
• The Reprieve / Le sursis (1945)
• The Respectful Prostitute / La putain respectueuse (1946)
• The Victors / Morts sans sépulture (1946)
• The Chips Are Down / Les jeux sont faits (1947)
• In the Mesh / L’engrénage (1948)
• Dirty Hands / Les mains sales (1948)
• Troubled Sleep (London ed. (Hamilton) has title: Iron in the soul) / La mort dans l’âme (1949)
• Intimacy (1949)
• The Devil and the Good Lord / Le diable et le bon dieu (1951)
• Kean (1953)
• Nekrassov (1955)
• The Condemned of Altona / Les séquestrés d’Altona (1959)
• Hurricane over Cuba / written and printed in 1961 in Brazil, along with Rubem Braga and Fernando Sabino (1961)
• The Trojan Women / Les Troyennes (1965)
• The Freud Scenario / Le scénario Freud (1984)

Philosophic essays

• Imagination: A Psychological Critique / L’imagination (1936)
• The Transcendence of the Ego / La transcendance de l’égo (1936)
• Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions / Esquisse d’une théorie des émotions (1939)
• The Imaginary / L’imaginaire (1940)
• Being and Nothingness / L’étre et le néant (1943)
• Existentialism is a Humanism / L’existentialisme est un humanisme (1946)
• Search for a Method / Question de méthode (1957)
• Critique of Dialectical Reason / Critique de la raison dialectique (1960, 1985)
• Notebooks for an Ethics / Cahiers pour une morale (1983)
• Truth and Existence / Vérité et existence (1989)

Critical essays

• Anti-Semite and Jew / Réflexions sur la question juive (1943)
• Baudelaire (1946)
• Situations I: Literary Critiques / Critiques littéraires (1947)
• Situations II: What Is Literature? / Qu’est-ce que la littérature ? (1947)
• "Black Orpheus" / "Orphée noir" (1948)
• Situations III (1949)
• Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr / S.G., comédien et martyr (1952)
• The Henri Martin Affair / L’affaire Henri Martin (1953)
• Situations IV: Portraits (1964)
• Situations V: Colonialism and Neocolonialism (1964)
• Situations VI: Problems of Marxism, Part 1 (1966)
• Situations VII: Problems of Marxism, Part 2 (1967)
• The Family Idiot / L’idiot de la famille (1971–2)
• Situations VIII: Autour de 1968 (1972)
• Situations IX: Mélanges (1972)
• Situations X: Life/Situations: Essays Written and Spoken / Politique et Autobiographie (1976)