Biograaf sartre annie cohen

In January , Sartre was injected with mescaline and he had a short hallucination. In the ’s he was apolitical and then became political. At one point, in nine months, “Sartre manages to spend an average of twelve hours a day writing. At another point Sartre writes, ‘I am now a partisan of Heidegger’.” During WWII he writes lots of letters – some two thousand pages exist from that time. He is kept prisoner with 14, other WWII soldiers for eight months during the war, held between Strasbourg and Nancy. The author says Sartre read books per year including Plato, Schopenhauer, Kant, Spinoza, Chretien de Troyes, Mallarme, Nerval, Cervantes, Aristotle, Bergson, Shakespeare, Lucretius, Saint Augustine, Casanova, Ramuz, Stendhal, and Cicero. Sartre’s relationship with Simone de Beauvoir lasted fifty-one years. During many of these years, for Sartre, “polygamy was the rule.”

The French left Vietnam to the Americans when they saw the war as costly and absurd. Henri Martin noticed that the Vietnamese people “were desperately trying to protect their independence” after a long struggle against colonialism. Henry noticed how the war was only creating more fighters against France – “now that we have killed his child and wounded his wife, our Annam