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The young Sartre confessed his ambition: to be both Spinoza and Stendhar. Perhaps no one else has come nearer to being in reach of this symbiosis. “The century of Sartre” was to become a frequent attribution. No other body of work makes as invalid any dissociation between the philosophic and the literary. There are indivisible in a spectrum of generes which extends from world-famous fiction and drama to autobiography, political and social theory, travel writing, ideological manifests, torrential high journalism, and art criticism to voluminous epistemological and ontological treatises. Sartre himself professed the “writing is life,” subsuming all energies of consciousness, all experience both private and public, be it technically philosophic or political polemical under the heading of an incessant prose. No impulse of thought, no phenomenology of perception was wasted. Their acess of language was immediate.

It is this imperative fusion which makes of ‘Les Mots” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Words_(book) a master-piece. Proof that the existential realization of post-Heideggerian ontology and narrative fiction, as in ‘La Nausee,” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nausea_(novel) that partisan political argument, as in the successive volumes of the ‘Situations’ and theater, as in ‘No Exit,’ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Exit arise from, are enacted by the identical defining instrumentality of words. That text is totality precisely in so far as it articulates the self, our being in the world and the adventures of meaning. In this perspective Sartre’s genius is classical. It is a direct beneficiary of the axiomatic conviction -- Pauline, Volatairean, Marxist -- that the act of writing embodies and alters the human status (Existentialism is a Humanism). Nothing informs Sartre’s thirst in the executive means of syntax. ~ Page 187

. . . . The principal philosophic tomes on “Being and Nothingness,” www.ipernity.com/doc/308605/43926758 on “dialectical reason,” on existential ethics exercised formidable influence and contain pages as dynamic, as abstractly “scenic” as any in Hegel. But they are receding into dusty reverence. Among the essay on art, that on Tintoretto in Venice, that on Giacometti retain thir psychological and sociological acumen, their intensities so characteristic of Sartre’s analytic and nervous involvement. The celebrated tract on “the Jewish question is almost certainly erroneous, yet has maintained something of its provocative urgency. There is, moreover, a wealth of autobiographical material whose introspective tension and calculated vulnerabilities rival the self-portrayals on Montaigne and Rousseau. ` Page 187
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