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Part of the book: Sartre's Theory of Literature

Christina Howells

MHRA Texts and Dissertations 14

Modern Humanities Research Association

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Abstract.  Saint Genet: comédien et martyr lies about half-way between L'Imaginaire and L'Ètre et le Néant on the one hand, and the Critique de la raison dialectique on the other, with respect to both chronology and content. Many of Sartre's earlier pre- occupations are still very much in evidence: in particular his distinction between the real and the imaginary from L'Imaginaire, and the categories of good and bad faith and the problems surrounding personal liberty from L'Etre et le Néant. But the work is also a sociological study of the formative influences on one particular illegitimate child, and an attempt to discover to what extent these condition or limit potential choices of career and personality.

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