by Jean-Paul Sartre · Gallimard · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070304066
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«L'enfance d'un chef» is the short novel by Jean-Paul Sartre, published by Gallimard in paperback (130 pages, in French).
A story that follows Lucien Fleurier, a young man from a well-off family, in his search for identity from a sheltered childhood to the bohemian and far-right circles of interwar Paris. Sartre parodies the bildungsroman and addresses alienation, identity and the meaning of existence in an absurd world.
The work was originally published in 1939 within the short-story collection «Le Mur». This edition belongs to the Folio 2 Euros collection (no. 3932) from Gallimard.
Suitable for readers of classic fiction and philosophy seeking a brief first approach to Sartre's work.
Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic, considered a leading figure in 20th-century French philosophy and Marxism. Sartre was one of the key figures in the philosophy of existentialism. His work has influenced sociology, critical theory, post-colonial theory, and literary studies. He was awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature despite attempting to refuse it, saying that he always declined official honors and that "a writer should not allow himself to be turned into an institution."
