November 21, 2003

The Rebel

By SCOTT McLEMEE

Article: Sartre Redux For someone who vowed "to hate the bourgeoisie until my dying breath," Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-80) was in many ways the ideal product of the French cultural establishment. In his memoir The Words, he recounts a childhood spent in relative comfort, encouraged in his aspiration to be a writer by his mother and his maternal grandfather. Sartre's father died before he was born -- thus sparing him, he later said, from an Oedipus complex.

A brilliant student, he

Digital or Print Subscription

Web Pass

Already have an account? Log In Now.