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According to Jean-Paul Sarte, "hell is other people," but I'm not sure that Sarte wanted to spend the whole of eternity by himself. —Northrop Frye, Symbolism In The Bible

Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre; 21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980) was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, political activist, biographer, and literary critic. He was one of the key figures in the philosophy of existentialism and phenomenology, and one of the leading figures in 20th-century French philosophy and Marxism.

His work has also influenced sociology, critical theory, post-colonial theory, and literary studies, and continues to influence these disciplines.

He was awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature but refused it, saying that he always declined official honors and that "a writer should not allow himself to be turned into an institution".

His most well known work is the play No Exit .

Jean-Paul Sartre provides examples of the following tropes:

• Existentialism
• Nietzsche Wannabe: One of his primary influences was Friedrich Nietzsche himself, though Sartre was a bit more blunt about there being no God and that man was essentially nothing at birth, and that those who succeed the dead are the same way, while the dead remain little more than reminders of the past for the living.

Works written by Jean-Paul Sartre include:

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Film Screenplays

• Typhus, wr. 1944, pub. 2007; adapted as The Proud and the Beautiful
• The Chips Are Down / Les jeux sont faits (screenplay, dir. Jean Delannoy; 1947)
• The Crucible (screenplay, 1957; dir. Raymond Rouleau)
• Freud: The Secret Passion (screenplay, 1962; dir. John Huston; Sartre had his name removed from the film)
• The Freud Scenario / Le scénario Freud (1984)

Literature

• Nausea / La nausée (1938)
• The Wall / Le mur (1939) – collection of 5 short stories
• The Roads to Freedom series:
  1. The Age of Reason / L'âge de raison (1945)
  2. The Reprieve / Le sursis (1945)
  3. Troubled Sleep (London ed. (Hamilton) has title: Iron in the Soul) / La mort dans l'âme (1949)
  4. The Last Chance (1949 and 1981) – unfinished
• Autobiographical:
  • Sartre By Himself / Sartre par lui-mème (1959)
  • The Words / Les Mots (1964)
  • Witness to My Life & Quiet Moments in a War / Lettres au Castor et à quelques autres (1983)
  • War Diaries: Notebooks from a Phony War / Les carnets de la drole de guerre (1984)

Theatre

• Bariona / Bariona, ou le fils du tonnerre (1940)
• The Flies / Les mouches (1943)
• No Exit / Huis clos (1944)
• The Respectful Prostitute / La putain respectueuse (1946)
• The Victors (Men Without Shadows) / Morts sans sépulture (1946)
• In the Mesh / L'engrénage (1948)
• Dirty Hands / Les mains sales (1948)
• Intimacy (1949)
• The Devil and the Good Lord / Le diable et le bon dieu (1951)
• Kean (1953)
• Nekrassov (1955)
• The Condemned of Altona / Les séquestrés d'Altona (1959)
• Hurricane over Cuba, written and printed in 1961 in Brazil, along with Rubem Braga and Fernando Sabino (1961)
• The Trojan Women / Les Troyennes (1965)