Like all of Sartre’s
biographies – Baudelaire (Sartre 1947b), Saint Genet (Sartre 1952, 1963) and
The Family Idiot – it is an exercise in existential psychoanalysis.
At the end of Words he
writes, “I have never seen myself as the happy owner of a ‘talent’: my one
concern was to save myself – nothing in my hands, nothing in my pockets –
through work and faith” (Sartre 2000a: 158).
Churchill, Steven.
Jean-Paul Sartre: Key Concepts (pp. 9-11). Taylor and Francis. Kindle edition.
