01204    a2200217   450000500170000000800390001702000220005603700360007804000070011404100080012107200140012907200120014307200210015510000260017624500240020225000060022626000320023230000100026452006950027499900170096920250526161936.0250430042001GB                   eng    a9780415254045qBC  bTaylor & FranciscGBP 14.99fBB  a01  aeng7 aQD2thema7 aHP2bic7 aPHI0000002bisac1 aJean-Paul Sartre914410aWhat 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.  c10774d10774