ABSTRACT
Sartre (1905–80), the French existentialist philosopher, critic, and writer, published his autobiographical novel, Nausea, in the same year he wrote this essay. Most of his philosophical works, which emphasized the necessity and inescapability of free choice, were written during the 1940s, including Beingand Nothingness (1943). In this essay Sartre attempts to explain why he believes Dos Passos is ‘the greatest writer of our time’. The essay was first printed by Gallimard in Situations I (1947). Reprinted here is Annette Michelson's translation from Sartre's Literary and Philosophical Essays(London: Rider, 1955), 88–96.
