The Wall

Name: The Wall
ISBN: 9780811201902

Jean-Paul Sartre

241 pages · about 4 hours
First published 1939
40 editions

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1 About this book

The Wall (French: Le Mur) by Jean-Paul Sartre is a collection of 5 short stories published in 1939. It contains four stories that had been published in various French journals, as well as the title story, "The Wall".

"The Wall" is considered one of the author's greatest existentialist works of fiction. Sartre dedicated the book to his companion Olga Kosakiewicz, a former student of Simone de Beauvoir.

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Existentialism
Modern Philosophy

2 About Jean-Paul Sartre

1905–1980

Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (, US also ; French:; 21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980) was a French philosopher, political activist, and writer, considered a leading figure in 20th-century French philosophy and Marxism. Sartre was one of the key figures in the philosophy of existentialism (and phenomenology) and was a proponent of Libertarian Marxism. His work has influenced sociology, critical theory, post-colonial theory, and literary studies.

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