Jean Paul Sartre (1905-1980) was born in Paris on June 21, 1905.

French writer and philosopher.

At the age of 19, he entered the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris to study philosophy and later served as a middle school philosophy teacher.

In 1933, he studied at the Philosophy Department of the French Academy in Berlin.

When World War II broke out, he was drafted into the army.

He was captured by the Germans in 1940, released the following year, and later participated in the French underground resistance movement.

Sartre is a representative figure of French post-war existentialist philosophy.

His major philosophical works include "Imagination", "Being and Nothingness", "Existentialism as a Humanism", "Critique of Dialectical Reason" and "Several Issues in Methodology".

These works have become important ideological materials for the development and changes of bourgeois philosophical thought in the twentieth century.

Sartre brought profound philosophy into his novels and drama creations. His novella "Nausea", short story collection "The Wall", and novel "The Road to Freedom" have long been recognized as masterpieces of contemporary French literature.

His drama creation achievements are higher than those of novels. He wrote 9 scripts in his life, among which "The Fly" and "The Interval" occupy an important position in contemporary French drama.

"The Submissive Whore" is a political drama that exposes the persecution of black people by American racists and places deep expectations on the awakening of ordinary people against racial discrimination.

This play embodies his idea that existentialism is a kind of humanism.

In 1955, Sartre and his wife, the writer Simone de Beauvoir, visited China.

In 1964, the Swedish Academy decided to award Sartre the Nobel Prize for Literature, but Sartre declined on the grounds that he did not accept any official honors.

Died in Paris on April 15, 1980.

The novel "Nausea" and the scripts "The Fly", "Question Between" and "The Submissive Prostitute" have been translated into Chinese.

One of the most important French philosophers of the 20th century and the main representative of French atheistic existentialism.

He is also an excellent writer.

Dramatist, critic and activist.

Sartre was born in a family of naval officers in Paris. His father died when he was young, and he lived with his maternal grandfather since he was a child.

He began to read a lot of literature at an early age.

In middle school, I was exposed to the works of Bergson, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and others.

In 1924, he was admitted to the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris to study philosophy.

In 1929, he obtained the qualification of teaching philosophy in universities and middle schools, and then taught in middle schools.

In 1933, he went to the French Academy in Berlin, Germany, to study philosophy, and accepted Husserl's phenomenology and Heidegger's existentialism.

After returning to China, he continued to teach in middle schools and published his first batch of philosophical works: "On Imagination", "Transcendence of the Self", "A Preliminary Study on the Theory of Emotions", "A Basic Concept of Husserl's Phenomenology: Intentionality", etc.

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In the autumn of 1943, his philosophical masterpiece "Being and Nothingness" was published, laying the foundation for Sartre's atheistic existential philosophical system.

Although Sartre was a precocious and talented student, he did not publish his first literary work until he was 33 years old.

While working as a middle school teacher in the small town of Le Havre, Sartre felt frustrated as the years went by, so he began to write thoughts on loneliness, and wrote the following articles in succession: "Discourse on Contingency", "On the Mind"

"The Loneliness", "Melancholia" and "The Strange Adventures of Antona Loquentin", the last of which was later adapted into the novel "Nausea" (1938).

Sartre is a representative figure of French post-war existentialist philosophy.

His major philosophical works include "Imagination", "Existence and Nothingness", "Existentialism as a Humanism", "Critique of Dialectical Reason" and "Several Issues in Methodology".

These works have become important ideological materials for the development and changes of bourgeois philosophical thought in the twentieth century.

Sartre brought profound philosophy into his novels and drama creations. His novella "Nausea", short story collection "The Wall", and novel "The Road to Freedom" have long been recognized as masterpieces of contemporary French literature.

His drama creation achievements are higher than those of novels. He wrote 9 scripts in his life, including "The Fly" and "The Interval", which occupy an important position in contemporary French drama.

"The Submissive Whore" is a political drama that exposes the persecution of black people by American racists and places deep expectations on the awakening of ordinary people against racial discrimination.

This play embodies his idea that existentialism is a kind of humanism.

In 1955, Sartre and his wife, the writer Simone de Beauvoir, visited China.

In 1964, the Swedish Academy decided to award Sartre the Nobel Prize for Literature, but Sartre declined on the grounds that he did not accept any official honors.

Died in Paris on April 15, 1980.

The novel "Nausea" and the scripts "The Fly", "Question Between" and "The Submissive Prostitute" have been translated into Chinese.

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Spring Studio] At the beginning of 1940, France and Britain declared war on Germany, and the French Alsace front line was already tense.

The German position is only a few kilometers away from here, and there is a possibility of exchange of fire between the two sides at any time.

In the French army barracks, a soldier in his 30s was buried in his notebook, writing and writing. The world around him seemed to not exist.

In order to save paper, which was very precious at that time, the notebooks were so densely packed with memories that there was not even a centimeter of space left.