The Words

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The Words is Jean-Paul Sartre’s autobiographical work in which he reflects on his childhood and the development of his literary and philosophical identity.

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instanceOf autobiographical work
book
memoir
about Jean-Paul Sartre
author Jean-Paul Sartre
countryOfOrigin France
focusesOn Sartre's emergence as a writer
Sartre's emerging philosophical views
Sartre's relationship with books
Sartre's relationship with his family
genre autobiography
philosophical memoir
hasInfluenced autobiographical writing in philosophy
studies of Sartre's intellectual development
languageMotif centrality of words and stories in shaping identity
literaryForm prose
literaryMovement 20th-century French literature
literaryTechnique introspective narrative
irony
retrospective self-analysis
mainTheme critique of bourgeois upbringing
role of language and books in personal development
self-creation through writing
narrativePerspective first-person
notableFor analysis of the act of writing
reflection on the function of literature
self-critical portrayal of the author
originalLanguage French
originalTitle Les Mots
partTitle Reading
Writing
philosophicalContext existentialism
portrays Sartre's disillusionment with his earlier self-image
Sartre's early sense of vocation as a writer
relatedWorkByAuthor Being and Nothingness
Critique of Dialectical Reason
Nausea
settingDescribed early 20th-century France
structure two-part work
subjectMatter Sartre's childhood
development of Sartre's literary identity
development of Sartre's philosophical identity
timePeriodDescribed Sartre's adolescence
Sartre's early childhood

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