Sartre

[ sahr-truh, sahrt; French sar-truh ]

noun

1. Jean-Paul [zhah, n, -, pawl], 1905–80, French philosopher, novelist, and dramatist: declined 1964 Nobel Prize in literature.

Sartre

/ sartrə /

noun

1. SartreJean-Paul19051980MFrenchPHILOSOPHY: philosopherWRITING: novelistTHEATRE: dramatist Jean-Paul (ʒɑ̃pɔl). 1905–80, French philosopher, novelist, and dramatist; chief French exponent of atheistic existentialism. His works include the philosophical essay Being and Nothingness (1943), the novels Nausea (1938) and Les Chemins de la liberté (1945–49), a trilogy, and the plays Les Mouches (1943), Huis clos (1944), and Les Mains sales (1948)

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There was a time when Jean-Paul Sartre was the most famous and influential philosopher in, perhaps, the world.

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Like his fellow playwright-philosophers Jean-Paul Sartre and Vaclav Havel, Soyinka can be tedious.

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Sartre eventually got his halva, which came wrapped in individual bars and sprinkled with chopped almonds.

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Sartre did not become the most celebrated writer by accident and the extent of his fame is hard to grasp today.

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Your sister had an affair with two major philosophers of the 20th century, Deleuze and then Sartre.

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