Aronson, Sartre Alive

Sartre set out to conquer the world with his pen, and he more than succeeded. He published ten volumes of essays, four novels, a volume of stories, three works of psychological theory, two major works of philosophy, two short biographical sketches, one longer biography, one multi-volume biography of nearly three thousand pages, one autobiography, a dozen plays and screenplays, plus a variety of occasional works. Add to this Sartre's posthumous writings. If the quantity is striking, even more remarkable is Sartre's willingness to attack all genres, comment on all subjects, claim authority in all fields: the nature of art, the nature of human reality, Freudian theory, Marxism, socialism, contemporary political questions, psychological questions, literary criticism, sculpture, painting.