In the canon
The Words
Jean Paul Sartre
- Form
- Form Autobiography
- Year
- Year 1963
- Originally in
- Originally in French
- Pages
- Pages 160
A philosopher looks back at the pampered only child who buried himself in his grandfather's books, invented himself as a genius through reading and then writing, and admits, in old age, that literature never actually saved anyone.
I began my life as I shall no doubt end it: amidst books.
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