"What I have just written is false. True. Neither true nor false, like everything one writes about madmen, about men". With these sentences, Jean-Paul Sartre undermines the strict veracity of his own autobiography, Les Mots. Undeterred by such circumlocutions, Andrew Leak cuts through Sartre's own disavowals to unearth the man behind the twentieth century's most controversial intellectual. "Jean-Paul Sartre" views the works of this literary and philosophical giant as events in his personal and public life, and reveals the close contexts in which his philosophy developed. Leak shows how Sartre was transformed by certain contemporary events, particularly his experiences during World War 11, and probes his relationships with a range of people - from Simone de Beauvoir to Gaston Gallimard. He offers a way of understanding the enigmas and seeming contradictions in Sartre's very public, and occasionally hazardous, commitments. Beneath the images of a famous life - from pre-war...

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