Posts tagged Jean Paul Sartre

mianoti: Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea’s manuscript Simone died on Apr 14th (1986); Sartre died on Apr 15th (1980). I remember both events (I was 13 in 1980 — I think I started reading Sartre’s books a few years later, but not too many)… April is full of unpleasant memories.

mianoti:

Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea’s manuscript

Simone died on Apr 14th (1986); Sartre died on Apr 15th (1980). I remember both events (I was 13 in 1980 — I think I started reading Sartre’s books a few years later, but not too many)… April is full of unpleasant memories.

They made me take cod liver oil: that is the height of luxury: a medicine to make you hungry while the others, in the street, would have sold themselves for a beefsteak. I saw them passing my window with their signs: “Give me bread”.
Methuen (1963). Dirty Hands, act 3, sc. 3, Gallimard (1948).