'Jean Paul Sartre's Blog'

[Nitin Madasu]

Hello,

I thought you guys might enjoy this. This is what happens if Jean Paul Sartre writes an angsty existentialist blog:

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/shouts/2012/10/le-blog-de-jean-paul-sartre.html

 

[Vaishali V]

I absolutely loved it! 

"When S. returned this afternoon I asked her where she had been, and she said she had been in the street.

“Perhaps,” I said, “that explains why you look ‘rue’-ful.”

Her blank stare only reinforced for me the futility of existence."

I suppose the S. here refers to Simone de Beauvoir, Sartre's lover and a philosopher in her own right. While Sartre figures prominently in the 'existential canon', Beauvoir seems to have been ignored, save for perhaps her feminist theories in her work "The Second Sex". This is an interview with her I found sometime ago which I found interesting. But it is a bit long!

http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4444/the-art-of-fiction-no-35-simone-de-beauvoir

 

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Vaishali V

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Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
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