By Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Sartre's well-known autobiography of his first ten years has been greatly in comparison to Rousseau's Confessions. Written while he was once fifty-nine years outdated, The Words is a masterpiece of self-analysis. Sartre the thinker, novelist and playwright brings to his personal youth an analogous rigor of honesty and perception he utilized so brilliantly to different authors. Born right into a mild, book-loving kin and raised by means of a widowed mom and doting grandparents, he had a early life that can be defined as one lengthy love affair with the published notice. The Words explores and evaluates the complete use of books and language in human adventure.
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One ends by hearing voices and writes at their dictation. Between the first Russian revolution and the first world war, fifteen years after Mallarme's death, when Daniel de Fontanin was discovering Gide's Fruits of the Earth, a man of the nineteenth century was foisting upon his grandson ideas that had been current under Louis Philippe. That is how peasant routines are said to be handed down: the fathers work in the fields, leaving the sons with the grandparents. I started off with a handicap of eighty years.
I pretended not to notice and would continue reading, with my eyes glued to the words beneath the fixed stare of the late Chateaubriand. This uneasiness would not last. The rest of the time I adored my 64 1 / Reading playmates. I ranked them above everything, and when I was told that Charles V had picked up Titian's brush, I was not at all surprised. What of it? That was what princes were made for. Yet I did not respect them. Why should I have praised them for being great? They were only doing their duty.
I found more reality in the idea than in the thing because it was given to me first and because it was given as a thing. It was in books that I encountered the universe: assimilated, classified, labeled, pondered, still formidable; and I confused the disorder of my bookish experiences with the random course of real events. From that came the idealism which it took me thirty years to shake off. Daily life was cloudless. We consorted with sedate people who spoke out loud and clear, who based their certitudes on sound principles, on the Wisdom of Nations, and who deigned to distinguish themselves from the common herd only by a certain affectedness of soul to which I was 51 THE W0BDS quite accustomed.
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