Countless biographers have tried to unveil the "real "Jean-Paul Sartre without his consent or cooperation. Only John Gerassi the "non-godson" of Sartre, an atheist was honored with the responsibility of being Sartre's official biographer. After drafting the commission with Sartre on the back of a menu at La Coupole, Gerassi recorded over one hundred hours of interviews with him between 1974 and 1979, and another hundred hours with Sartre's friends, colleagues, and enemies. Gerassi also immersed himself in Sartre's literary, philosophical, and personal writings. Gerassi had access to all of Sartre's files, unpublished manuscripts, and extensive notes for planned but undelivered lectures. Simone de Beauvoir gave many of Sartre's unpublished letters to Gerassi as well. Sartre trusted the integrity of Gerassi so completely that he considered Gerassi's biography to be the continuation of his own autobiography, "Les mots." As a personal friend, Gerassi writes with advantages shared by no other biographer of Sartre.
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- ISBN10 0226287971
- ISBN13 9780226287973
- Publish Date 25 April 1989
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 18 May 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Chicago Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 224
- Language English