Everything is gratuitous, this garden, this city a · Jean-Paul Sartre

[ Declining to accept the Nobel Prize for Literatu

Everything is gratuitous, this garden, this city and myself. When you suddenly realize it, it makes you feel sick and everything begins to drift . . . that’s nausea.

Anguish Disillusionment and Lost Love

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Jean-Paul Sartre

1905-06-21 — 1980-04-15 · Paris

Jean-Paul Sartre was a French philosopher, writer, playwright, and literary critic, a central figure of atheistic existentialism. His vast and multifaceted work explores human freedom, individual responsibility, bad faith, and social commitment. Sartre rejected the Nobel Prize in Literature, advocating for a stance of refusal of bourgeois institutions. His thought profoundly influenced 20th-century philosophy, literature, and political debate, marking a generation with his emphasis on autonomy and the need for intervention in the world.

Awards (1)

1964

Nobel de Literatura

The Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded annually to authors who have produced outstanding works in the field of literature, with an ideal geared towards humanity.