AUTOGRAPHS, LETTERS & MANUSCRIPTS
Dec 2, 2021
Urbanizacion El Real del Campanario. E-12, Bajo B 29688 Estepona (Malaga). SPAIN, Spain
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LOT 858:

SARTRE JEAN-PAUL: (1905-1980) French Philosopher, Playwright & Novelist, awarded (but refused) the Nobel Prize for ...

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SARTRE JEAN-PAUL: (1905-1980) French Philosopher, Playwright & Novelist, awarded (but refused) the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1964. A.N.S., J Sartre, one page, 4to, n.p., n.d. (1976/77), in French. Sartre writes, in full, 'Lotta Continua is going to be banned: it is the freedom of the revolutionary press which is once more at stake. I extend a call to Italian writers to gain control of the newspaper individually or jointly'. VG Lotta Continua ('Continuous Struggle') was a far left extra-parliamentary organisation founded in Italy in 1969. The first issue of Lotta Continua's eponymous newspaper was published in the November of that year. In 1977 Sartre gave an interview to the paper on the occasion of a far left rally in Bologna in which he declared 'Je ne suis plus Marxiste'. It was around this time that the newspaper disbanded. Jean-Paul Sartre was one of the key figures in the philosophy of existentialism and phenomenology and a leading figure in 20th century French philosophy and Marxism.

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