Sartre

While the imminent Pléiade edition of Sartre's literary writings promises to attract fresh interest in many of his texts so far unpublished, Sartre's known oeuvre has continued to produce a steady flow of commentaries. In an article commemorating the first anniversary of Sartre's death, Michel Contat has logged a year rich in colloquia, books and artistic events honoring Sartre in all French-speaking countries as well as Germany, Portugal, England, and the United States. What most recent tributes share is a heightened urgency for capturing the global sensibility at the heart of each Sartrean enterprise, regardless of particularities in his choice of context or genre.