Author | Jean-Paul Sartre |
---|---|
Original title | Qu'est-ce que la littérature? |
Translator | Bernard Frechtman |
Language | French |
Subject | Literature, Philosophy |
Publisher | Methuen & Co. LTD. (London) |
Publication date | 1948 |
Publication place | France |
Published in English | 1950 |
Media type | |
Pages | 238 |
What Is Literature? (French: Qu'est-ce que la littérature?), also published as Literature and Existentialism,[1] is an essay by French philosopher and novelist Jean-Paul Sartre, published by Gallimard in 1948.[2] Initially published in freestanding essays across French literary journals Les Temps modernes, Situations I and Situations II, essays "What Is Writing?" and "Why Write?" were translated into English and published by the Paris-based literary journal Transition 1948.[3] The English translation by Bernard Frechtman was published in 1950.[4]