Book · 1964

The Words

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Meta literary Self mythologizing Philosophical clarity Existential critique Denunciation of artifice Farewell to words

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1964

Synopsis

The book, consisting of Sartre distancing himself from writing and making his farewells to literature was very successful for the author and was hailed nearly unanimously as a "literary success"[citation needed]. In November of the same year, 1964, he refused the Nobel Prize for Literature awarded for his work, described as "rich in ideas and filled with the spirit of freedom and the quest for truth, [it] has exerted a far-reaching influence on our age."[3]

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