Jean-Paul Sartre: Quick Facts

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Born	June 21, 1905 • Paris • France
Died	April 15, 1980 (aged 74) • Paris • France
Notable Works	“Being and Nothingness” • “Critique of Dialectical Reason” • “Existentialism Is a Humanism” • “Le Fantôme de Staline” • “Les chemins de la liberté” • “Nausea” • “No Exit” • “Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr” • “Situations” • “The Flies” • “The Psychology of Imagination” • “The Words”
Subjects Of Study	littérature engagée • Gustave Flaubert • Marxism • existentialism • phenomenology