Words

"...[I]t is a remarkable book, bound to have a considerable influence on many readers. But it differs much less from Sartre's other post-war work than may seem the case at first sight and, like all his work, it raises controversial issues in a way that no truly autobiographical book can ever do....The result is an inconclusive book, partly ideological, partly psychological in a narrow sense, anti-literary at times but inconsistently so....If the Sartre who considers literature to be a 'critical mirror' of the self were to write his autobiography, it would be a very different book. 'The Words' is not yet the work that givs us back the man who, for a moment, came close to speaking for an entire generation."Sartre, Jean-Paul is the author of 'Words', published 1981 under ISBN 9780394747095 and ISBN 0394747097.