01170    a2200205   450000500170000000800390001702000220005603700360007804000070011404100080012107200140012907200120014307200210015510000210017624500240019725000060022126000320022730000100025952006950026920250526161936.0250430042001GB                   eng    a9780415254045qBC  bTaylor & FranciscGBP 14.99fBB  a01  aeng7 aQD2thema7 aHP2bic7 aPHI0000002bisac1 aJean-Paul Sartre10aWhat is Literature?  a2  aOxfordbRoutledgec20010518  a288 p  bJean-Paul Sartre was one of the most important philosophical and political thinkers of the twentieth century. His writings had a potency that was irresistible to the intellectual scene that swept post-war Europe, and have left a vital inheritance to contemporary thought. The central tenet of the Existentialist movement which he helped to found, whereby God is replaced by an ethical self, proved hugely attractive to a generation that had seen the horrors of Nazism, and provoked a revolution in post-war thought and literature. In What is Literature? Sartre the novelist and Sartre the philosopher combine to address the phenomenon of literature, exploring why we read, and why we write.