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Playboy Interview: Jean-Paul Sartre

May, 1965

French writers have always had a gift for inciting wars of the spirit, but probably no French writer since Voltaire has given the civilized world a case of the jitters comparable to that inflicted upon it by a stocky, walleyed, 59-year-old ex-professor named Jean-Paul Sartre. As a philosopher ("Being and Nothingness," "What Is Existentalism?"), novelist ("Nausea," "The Age of Reason"), playwright ("The Flies," "No Exit," "The Respe...

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