ABSTRACT
Jean-Paul Sartre's name has now disappeared from the daily paper Libération and from all other remaining publications to which he used to lend his name as directeur in order to shield them from government reprisals. Today the revolutionary is a man conscious of his alienation, who looks at human life from a distance and anticipates that man will live in a non-alienated society. Sartre now maintains that he never pretended to have had all the valid answers; he frankly questions his own views. Admittedly, Part Two of this Critique will not now be written, any more than the treatise on Ethics which he once promised. So it is perhaps all the more understandable that Sartre does not want to leave his Flaubert as a limbless torso. Sartre now appears to be convinced that his political ideas will not remain valid for very long, but that his book on Gustave Flaubert will be read for a long time to come.
