On the French philosopher’s birthday, revisit A. J. Liebling’s story about a lecture Sartre gave in New York.
Jean-Paul Sartre, a very short, very cheerful Parisian, lectured at the Carnegie Chamber Music Hall last week without provoking a riot or a single refined cry of “,” the latter, and milder, of which terms means “faker.” For M. Sartre, who is at once the foremost French dramatist of the war years and the father of a new and frequently discussed way of looking at the world, known as Existentialism, the decorum of intellectual life here is one of the charms of New York.
M. Sartre believes in economy of words inside the theatre as well as out. “The trouble with most plays,” he says, “may be expressed in the simple phrase ‘What a lot of words!’ In the French theatre before the war there were too many words, too many characters, too many scenes. The war has perhaps not sufficiently affected the American theatre.
As for Existentialism, a doctrine which he first adumbrated in the seven hundred pages of “L’Etre et le Néant” and which has been commented upon in several million words since then, most of them angry, we shall not try to explain it here.
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