The Words: The Autobiography of Jean-Paul Sartre", Translated from the French by Irene Clephane, published by Hamish Hamilton, London, 1964, First Edition, First Printing, stated "First Published in Great Britain, 1964, by Hamish Hamilton Ltd."

Hard boards, original publisher's dark brown cloth with gold lettering on spine [sporadic fading]; 5.1/2" x 8.3/4"; 173 pages, very good condition.

"Jean-Paul Sartre writes so simply that the grace of his style survives translation. His style is an indication of the clarity of his thought. His mind works with a lucidity that seems to be exclusively the gift of old or middle-aged men, men who are past the complex years when every passing skirt or newspaper article excites them. It is a beautiful simplicity, but one that exists at the expense of turbulent reality as young people know it." [George Braziller, 1964]

"The Words is a literary production in which Sartre plays with words about what it must be like to be a child with a fifty-nine-year-old's perspective. It is an incredibly beautiful production, as great an autobiography as any written in this century. Yet there is something sad about the creativity. It is sad because this mild cynic wished above all to grip naked reality. He ends up with new fantasies between his hands, fantasies that rushed in to take the place of vulgar illusions the existentialists hoped to strip away." [George Braziller, 1964]

Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) was a significant voice in the creation of existential thought. His explorations of the ways human existence is unique among all life-forms in its capacity to choose continue to influence fields such as philosophy, sociology, and literary studies. He was awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature, but refused the honor.

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