TY - BOOK AU - Cohen-Solal, Annie TI - Jean-Paul Sartre: a life SN - 1565849744 U1 - 923.2 PY - 1989/// CY - New York, London PB - The New Press KW - Biographies & Memoir KW - Professionals & Academics KW - Philosophers N1 - 1. Toward genius 1905-1939: Spotlight on Jean-Baptiste -- The sorrows of Anne-Marie -- The private bestiary of a child-king -- Scene from La Rochelle -- A thousand Socrates -- Just One Socrates -- Dark mood, madness, other journeys -- Interlude, two years of happiness -- 2. The Metamorphosis of War 1939-1945: A war a la Kafka -- A lofty captivity -- Socialism and freedom -- Impasse -- A writer who resisted -- not a resistance fighter who wrote -- Spiritual leader for thousand of young people -- From buffalo Bill to FDR, the first trip to America -- 3. The Sartre Years 1945-1956: Paris, The era of existentialism -- New York -- In the engine room -- Hard times with group politics -- The impasse revisited -- Pigeons and tanks -- 4. A Man Waking Up 1956-1980: You're terrific -- The anti-ambassador -- Untouchable -- Between Flaubert and the Maoist -- In the shadow of the tower ER -