The 3 best books by the fascinating Jean-Paul Sartre

The idealism most committed to the human, in which Sartre participated, is always oriented towards the left, towards the social, towards state protectionism. Partly in response to the citizen but also in the face of the excesses of a market that, freed from all ties, always ends up limiting access to wealth. If the market were allowed everything, it would end up devouring itself, that is clear from the current trend.

The point is that historically communism as an interventionist solution of the State never found the ideal development that was sought, quite the opposite. Still, Sartre was one of those necessary idealists. Because his existentialism made his narrative was based on an alienation born from unbridled ambitions of the world advancing towards the unbridled capitalism in which we now inhabit. And then aspiring to utopia was, and surely is, the only solution.

Being an idealist in this sense and an existentialist out of philosophical conviction led him to Jean Paul Sartre (with whoever his wife was Simone de Beauvoir), to an almost fatalistic literature as an awareness-raising task and to other types of narrative proposals such as the essay. In one way or another, writing for tried to compensate for the wear and tear that comes with fighting giants with energy, courage and vitality. Existentialism in the strictly literary and commitment and protest in any other area of ​​writing, between the social and the philosophical.

Being and nothingness is probably its work with a more brilliant philosophical tone, with a social story of Europe devastated after the Second World War. An essential book by the genius Sartre that nourished thinkers but also writers. A way of transmitting the world (or what was left of it), which served as an anthropological study, but which also became a source for the intimate story of so many intra-stories of the losers of the war (that is, of all of them).

Top 3 recommended novels by Jean-Paul Sartre

Nausea

Taking off a novel from this title already anticipates a somatized malaise, a visceral irruption of disenchantment. To exist, to be, what are we? These are not questions thrown at the stars on a fantastic clear night.

The question goes inwards, towards what we ourselves can look for in the dark sky of the soul. Antoine Roquetin, the protagonist of this novel does not know that it harbors this latent question, compelling to pronounce itself with its heavy questions. Antoine continues with his life, his vicissitudes as a writer and researcher. Nausea is that critical moment in which the question arises as to whether we are fundamentally something, beyond our routines and tendencies.

Antoine writer then becomes Antoine the philosopher who seeks the answer and whose feelings of limitation but of infinity, melancholy and the need for happiness.

Vomiting can be controlled before the dizziness of living, but its effects always remain ... This being his first novel, but already in his thirties, it is understood that thematic maturity, the philosopher was growing, social disenchantment also increased, the existence seemed simply doom. A certain aftertaste Nietzsche It follows from this reading.

Nausea

The Paths of Freedom trilogy

In my opinion, few units of a literary volume need each other as much as the case of this trilogy. The world moved in fear of its own total destruction.

The atomic bombs had already paved the way. The lust for war was disguised by a last ideal of survival of the species.

The cold war was served. What freedom could there be then? "The Last Chance", "The Postponement" and "Death in the Soul" are responsible for returning the essence to the individual subjected to years of fear. In those years, freedom sounded like something unique, only to the most favored.

Existentialism and happiness, practically opposite concepts that find in this work a space of connivance (not coexistence). Europe, its inhabitants should relearn to exist freely to recover the possibility of seeing glimpses of happiness.

The Paths of Freedom trilogy

Behind closed doors

What would existentialism be without visualizing the ancient ideas of God and the Devil. A subject that Sartre also touches on in other books.

As for this play, we follow three characters condemned to hell. At times, Sartre sees hell as the Earth itself. A world in which we cannot know the whole truth, full of shadows and limitations of reason, appears like the worst of hell. The proposal, thanks to the theater's own dialogue, greatly lightens the heaviest ideas about our future and our ultimate destiny.

Entertaining existentialism with a fabulous, gloomy aftertaste ... a very complete work. Reading theater can always be good, especially in cases of very transcendental authors like Sartre. Recommended to get started in genius.

Behind closed doors
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