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3239f57 Atheistic existentialism, of which I am a representative, declares with greater consistency that if God does not exist there is at least one being whose existence comes before its essence, a being which exists before it can be defined by any conception of it. That being is man.... man existence humanism consistency essence atheistic views definition beliefs sartre jean-paul-sartre existentialism atheist humans Jean-Paul Sartre
be2aa36 If I didn't try to assume responsibility for my own existence, it would seem utterly absurd to go on existing. freedom philosophy the-age-of-reason the-roads-to-freedom jean-paul-sartre french-literature Jean-Paul Sartre
d9ec681 When a man gets drunk he gets sentimental. That's what I wanted to avoid. freedom philosophy the-age-of-reason the-roads-to-freedom jean-paul-sartre french-literature Jean-Paul Sartre
0894b6b My existence began to worry me seriously. Was I not a simple spectre? philosophy nausea jean-paul-sartre Jean-Paul Sartre
18bae26 He began as a minor imitator of Fitzgerald, wrote a novel in the late twenties which won a prize, became dissatisfied with his work, stopped writing for a period of years. When he came back it was to BLACK MASK and the other detective magazines with a curious and terrible fiction which had never been seen before in the genre markets; Hart Crane and certainly Hemingway were writing of people on the edge of their emotions and their possibility but the genre mystery markets were filled with characters whose pain was circumstantial, whose resolution was through action; Woolrich's gallery was of those so damaged that their lives could only be seen as vast anticlimax to central and terrible events which had occurred long before the incidents of the story. Hammett and his great disciple, Chandler, had verged toward this more than a little, there is no minimizing the depth of their contribution to the mystery and to literature but Hammett and Chandler were still working within the devices of their category: detectives confronted problems and solved (or more commonly failed to solve) them, evil was generalized but had at least specific manifestations: Woolrich went far out on the edge. His characters killed, were killed, witnessed murder, attempted to solve it but the events were peripheral to the central circumstances. What I am trying to say, perhaps, is that Hammett and Chandler wrote of death but the novels and short stories of Woolrich *were* death. In all of its delicacy and grace, its fragile beauty as well as its finality. Most of his plots made no objective sense. Woolrich was writing at the cutting edge of his time. Twenty years later his vision would attract a Truffaut whose own influences had been the philosophy of Sartre, the French nouvelle vague, the central conception that nothing really mattered. At all. But the suffering. Ah, that mattered; that mattered quite a bit. dashiel-hammett detective detective-fiction detective-noir detective-novel detective-novels detective-stories ernest-hemingway f-scott-fitzgerald sartre francois-truffaut hart-crane jean-paul-sartre mystery-and-crime-drama mystery-suspense mystery-thriller raymond-chandler truffaut crime-thriller crime-fiction noir noir-fiction detectives mystery crime Barry N. Malzberg
5c602dd The writer has to die to give birth to the intellectual in the service of the wretched of the earth. writing-life sacrifice altruism birth-and-rebirth french-authors french-biographers french-biographies french-resistance intellectual-theories public-intellectuals service-to-mankind women-biographers ideologies biography jean-paul-sartre Annie Cohen-Solal
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