Sartre: A Graphic Guide

Between the ending of the Second World War and his death in 1980, Jean-Paul Sartre was the world's most famous French writer, and one of the best-known living philosophers. The author of Being and Nothingness, Nausea, The Age of Reason and much more, Sartre was the father of existentialism, one of the 20th century's most enduring, if challenging, ways of thinking.

Introducing Sartre explores Sartre's life and work, examining his Marxism, his enthusiasm for the student rebellion of 1968, his support for national liberation moverments in the Third World, his lifelong relationshiop with feminist Simone de Beauvoir and the impact which his unusual childhood has on his attitude towards French society.