Jean Paul Sartre Autobiography

Jean Paul Sartre Autobiography

Full Name: Mr. Jean-Paul Sartre
Date of Birth: June 21, 1905
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Died: April 15, 1980
Place of Death: Paris, France
Classification: Artists & Entertainers


Although he wrote a plethora of academic works, Jean Paul Sartre was truly a philosopher and a political activist. His belief that all men should be free and that existentialism was the way to freedom brought him much recognition in all fields, including the Nobel Peace Prize for Literature, which he did not accept in the mid-1960s.

As a young lad, Jean’s father died, which forced him to live with his grandfather, who was a professor of German at the Sorbonne. Sartre was shy as a young boy, but searched for friends who would accept him. While he didn’t make any lifelong friends in his early years, the time he had with his mother was released in novel form as Let Mots (or The Words) in 1963.

He attended the Ecole Normale Superieure and upon graduation fell in love with Simone de Beauvoir, who wrote the first biography of Jean Paul Sartre, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter, in 1959. The first novel Sartre released was Nausea, which garnished him international appeal. His later writings were more academically based and discussed philosophy, politics, and psychology.

After serving in World War II, he saw the world in a new, almost pessimistic light. He noticed how the poor lived and how they were treated in society. His writings focused even more on the freedom of the individual and the reality of man. He released a play called Les Mouches, Huis-clos, and Les Main Sales, Lucifer and the Lord, and Loser Wins within a few years of each other. The plays fared well, and his writings showed a definite change as his political viewpoints supported communism and the way of the Soviet Union