War Diaries, Notebooks from a Phoney War 1939-1940

Jean-Paul Sartre, translated by Quintin Hoare

Verlag: Verso, London, 1984

Beschreibung

First UK edition, first printing. Hardback in dustwrapper. 20.5 × 14cm, 365pp. During the phony war that preceded the invasion of France, between late 1939 and the summer of 1940, the young Jean-Paul Sartre was stationed in his native Alsace as part of a meteorological unit. He used his considerable periods of spare time, between mundane duties like watching weather balloons, to make a series of notes on philosophy, literature, politics, history and autobiography that anticipate the themes of his later masterpieces, and often surpass them in literary verve and directness. These War Diaries form a portrait of Sartre in his most intense and brilliant phase. With them the twentieth century?s most remarkable and public philosopher has provided us with a fitting posthumous monument to his honest and creativity. Condition: The book itself is in very good condition, but with some foxing to the pages' top edge and a few specks of foxing to the fore-edge. The main body of text in very good, clean condition. The dustwrapper has a little rubbing to the edges but is also very good. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 014168

Bibliografische Details

Titel: War Diaries, Notebooks from a Phoney War ...

Verlag: Verso, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1984

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Good Plus

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good

Auflage: 1st Edition