«- Comment s'appellent-ils, ces trois-là ?<br />- Steinbock, Ibbieta et Mirbal, dit le gardien.<br />Le commandant mit ses lorgnons et regarda sa liste :<br />- Steinbock... Steinbock... Voilà. Vous êtes condamné à mort.<br />Vous serez fusillé demain matin.<br />Il regarda encore :<br />- Les deux autres aussi, dit-il.<br />- C'est pas possible, dit Juan. Pas moi.<br />Le commandant le regarda d'un air étonné...»

«Écriture et lecture sont les deux faces d'un même fait d'histoire et la liberté à laquelle l'écrivain nous convie, ce n'est pas une pure conscience abstraite d'être libre. Elle n'est pas, à proprement parler, elle se conquiert dans une situation historique ; chaque livre propose une libération concrète à partir d'une aliénation particulière... Et puisque les libertés de l'auteur et du lecteur se cherchent et s'affectent à travers un monde, on peut dire aussi bien que c'est le choix fait par l'auteur d'un certain aspect du monde qui décide du lecteur, et réciproquement que c'est en choisissant son lecteur que l'écrivain décide de son sujet. Ainsi tous les ouvrages de l'esprit contiennent en eux-mêmes l'image du lecteur auquel ils sont destinés.»Jean-Paul Sartre.

With a new preface by Michael Walzer

Jean-Paul Sartre's book is a brilliant portrait of both anti-Semite and Jew, written by a non-Jew and from a non-Jewish point of view. Nothing of the anti-Semite either in his subtle form as a snob, or in his crude form as a gangster, escapes Sartre's sharp eye, and the whole problem of the Jew's relationship to the Gentile is examined in a concrete and living way, rather than in terms of sociological abstractions.

Gustave Flaubert's boyhood desire to become an actor was "his way of living the situation assigned to him in the Flaubert family," writes Sartre. This monumental life study draws on psychoanalysis and existentialism in imagining how Flaubert forged his inner self. Sartre portrays the author of Madame Bovary as a Nero of words whose towering literary ambition was the revenge of a child seething with rage at his manly, overpossessive mother. Though this volume covers Flaubert's early literary career, the emphasis is on childhood and adolescence. His fetishes, homoerotic affairs, self-proclaimed desire to be a woman and masochism add up to a seldom-seen side of the polished literary stylist. Readers not put off by the dense academic prose and highly speculative approach will find much to ponder.

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One of Sartre's most important pieces of writing, Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions not only anticipates but argues many of the ideas to be found in his famous Being and Nothingness .

It was to correct common misconceptions about his thought that Jean-Paul Sartre, the most dominent European intellectual of the post-World War II decades, accepted an invitation to speak on October 29, 1945, at the Club Maintenant in Paris. The unstated objective of his lecture (“Existentialism Is a Humanism”) was to expound his philosophy as a form of “existentialism,” a term much bandied about at the time. Sartre asserted that existentialism was essentially a doctrine for philosophers, though, ironically, he was about to make it accessible to a general audience. The published text of his lecture quickly became one of the bibles of existentialism and made Sartre an international celebrity.
The idea of freedom occupies the center of Sartre’s doctrine. Man, born into an empty, godless universe, is nothing to begin with. He creates his essence—his self, his being—through the choices he freely makes (“existence precedes essence”). Were it not for the contingency of his death, he would never end. Choosing to be this or that is to affirm the value of what we choose. In choosing, therefore, we commit not only ourselves but all of mankind.
This book presents a new English translation of Sartre’s 1945 lecture and his analysis of Camus’s
, along with a discussion of these works by acclaimed Sartre biographer Annie Cohen-Solal. This edition is a translation of the 1996 French edition, which includes Arlette Elkaïm-Sartre’s introduction and a Q&A with Sartre about his lecture.

June 1940 was the summer of defeat for the French soldiers, deserted by their officers, utterly demoralized, awaiting the Armistice. Day by day, hour by hour, "Iron in the Soul" unfolds what men thought and felt and did as France fell. Men who shrugged, men who ran, men who fought and tragic men like Mathieu, who had dedicated his life to finding personal freedom, now overwhelmed by remorse and bitterness, who must learn to kill. "Iron in the Soul", the third volume of Sartre's "Roads to Freedom Trilogy", is a harrowing depiction of war and what it means to lose.