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War Diaries: Notebooks from a Phoney War, 1939-40 (Verso Classics) (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for War DiariesOriginally published in 1984, this is a new edition of Sartre's Second World War diaries covering philosophy, literature, art, politics and autobiography. In the VERSO CLASSICS series.
Full description- Publisher: Verso Books
- Published: 01 December 1999
- Format: Paperback 388 pages
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- Categories: Biography: General | Diaries, Letters & Journals | European History | Second World War | Philosophy | History Of Western Philosophy | Social & Political Philosophy
- ISBN 13: 9781859842386 ISBN 10: 1859842380
- Sales rank: 635,648
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Full description for War Diaries
During the phoney war that preceded the invasion of France, between late 1939 and the summer of 1940, the young Jean-Paul Sartre was stationed in his native Alsace as part of a meteorological unit. He used his considerable periods of spare time, between mundane duties like watching weather balloons, to make a series of notes on philosophy, literature, politics and autobiography that anticipate the themes of his later masterpieces, and often surpass them in literary verve and directness. These War Diaries form a portrait of Sartre in his most intense and brilliant phase. With them the twentieth century's most remarkable and public philosopher has provided us with a fitting posthumous monument to his honesty and creativity.
