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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

/ ٰə /

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)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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I was thinking about relationships between Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir and this kind of the dynamic between an intellectual couple of a certain era.

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Jean Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir were wowed by him when they finally met in Rome in 1961.

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The situation evokes both Jean-Paul Sartre’s “No Exit,” where hell is defined as other people, and a perkier than usual episode of “The Twilight Zone.”

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This matters, because the trolling tactics that Sartre identified nearly eight decades ago only have power if people give in to them.

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“I feel like I’m in a surreal movie, like Sartre’s ‘No Exit,’” the princess said on the street, interrupted repeatedly by a barking fluffy white dog in her arms and three others at her ankles.

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