| Product Summary | | Format: Hardcover | | ISBN: 9781906155049 | | Publisher: Black Dog Publishing | | Publish Date: 4/15/2008 | | Buy.com Sku: 204552916 | | Item#: R29F7N | | Dimensions (in Inches) 10.2H x 8.05L x 1.75T |
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| | | Tarkovsky provides a collection of accessible academic essays by leading film studies professionals. A challenging, broadly illustrated book that fully captures the essence of this cinematic pioneer.
| Author Bio| Jean Paul Sartre | | A major figure of the 20th century, Jean-Paul Sartre holds a unique position for having attained fame as a noted philosopher, novelist, dramatist, political theorist, and literary critic. Sartre's father died early on, so the boy was raised by his maternal grandfather, Carl Schweitzer, a professor of German at the Sorbonne in Paris. Short, cross-eyed, and somewhat of a loner, Jean-Paul retreated to the world of books in his grandfather's library. After studying philosophy at the renowned École Normale Supérieure--where he met Simone de Beauvoir, who would be a lifelong colleague as well as an accomplished thinker and writer----Sartre taught high school philosophy at Le Havre, Laon, and Paris. His teaching career was interrupted by study in both Berlin and Freiburg, Germany, and his being drafted for the war effort in 1939. In 1940, he was captured and imprisoned, at which time he studied the philosophy of Martin Heidegger and wrote his first play. Following the war, Sartre returned to teaching, while participating in the French Resistance movement in Paris. In 1945, he ended his academic career and devoted his life to writing. He remained actively engaged in the political and social issues of the day, and helped to found the review Les Temps Modernes, for which he wrote several essays on Communism in the 1950s. In the 1960s, after appearing before thousands of students at the Sorbonne during the 1968 student protests, he became increasingly ill and retreated to work on a final project involving the life of Gustave Flaubert. When offered the Nobel Prize in 1964, he turned it down, saying, "A writer must not allow himself to be turned into an institution." Sartre became blind in 1973, and by the late 1970s he was suffering from a number of ailments after a lifetime of smoking two packs a day, heavy drinking |
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