Words by Sartre Jean-Paul and Clephane Irene

After his father's early death Jean-Paul Sartre was brought up at his grandfather's home in a world even then eighty years out of date. This work provides background to the philosophy of one of the profoundest thinkers of the twentieth century.|Philosopher novelist playwright and polemicist Jean-Paul Sartre is thought to have been the central figure in post-war European culture and political thinking. His most well-known works all of which are published by Penguin include THE AGE OF REASON NAUSEA and IRON IN THE SOUL.|After his father's early death Jean-Paul Sartre was brought up at his grandfather's home in a world even then eighty years out of date. In Words Sartre recalls growing up within the confines of French provincialism in the period before the First World War an illusion-ridden childhood made bearable by his lively imagination and passion for reading and writing. A brilliant work of self-analysis Words provides an essential background to the philosophy of one of the profoundest thinkers of the twentieth century.