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Sartre

[ sahr-truh, sahrt; French sar-truh ]

noun

  1. Jean-Paul [zhah, n, -, pawl], 1905–80, French philosopher, novelist, and dramatist: declined 1964 Nobel Prize in literature.


Sartre

/ sartrə /

noun

  1. SartreJean-Paul19051980MFrenchPHILOSOPHY: philosopherWRITING: novelistTHEATRE: dramatist Jean-Paul (ʒɑ̃pɔl). 1905–80, French philosopher, novelist, and dramatist; chief French exponent of atheistic existentialism. His works include the philosophical essay Being and Nothingness (1943), the novels Nausea (1938) and Les Chemins de la liberté (1945–49), a trilogy, and the plays Les Mouches (1943), Huis clos (1944), and Les Mains sales (1948)
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There was a time when Jean-Paul Sartre was the most famous and influential philosopher in, perhaps, the world.

Like his fellow playwright-philosophers Jean-Paul Sartre and Vaclav Havel, Soyinka can be tedious.

Sartre eventually got his halva, which came wrapped in individual bars and sprinkled with chopped almonds.

Sartre did not become the most celebrated writer by accident and the extent of his fame is hard to grasp today.

Your sister had an affair with two major philosophers of the 20th century, Deleuze and then Sartre.

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Sartor ResartusSartre, Jean-Paul