What is Literature? (Routledge Classics) - Softcover

Jean-Paul Sartre was one of the most important philosophical and political think ers of the twentieth century. His writings had a potency that was irresistible t o the intellectual scene that swept post-war Europe, and have left a vital inher itance to contemporary thought. The central tenet of the Existentialist movement which he helped to found, whereby God is replaced by an ethical self, proved hu gely attractive to a generation that had seen the horrors of Nazism, and provoke d a revolution in post-war thought and literature. In What is Literature? Sar tre the novelist and Sartre the philosopher combine to address the phenomenon of literature, exploring why we read, and why we write.