Notes of a Strange War (Two Volumes)
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"Notes on a Strange War" was written by Sartre on the eve of World War II. At that time, Sartre was drafted into the army and came to a school in Alsace. He raced against time to record his thoughts, feelings, thoughts, ideas, and memories. He wrote non-stop from morning to night. He himself said that he kept writing from dawn to night, even going to cafes and going to mass. Sartre said: "Even in the midst of battle, I would sit down suddenly because I immediately wanted to write down what I felt and saw." These notebooks are extremely valuable for studying the formation of Sartre's thoughts, because they record Sartre's views on Heidegger, Nizen, his childhood, the system of existence, Flaubert, etc. The notes also record Sartre's ideological activities at that time, such as "waking up in the middle of the night and thinking about issues of will" and "discovering a theory of time." Researchers believe that the greatest value of these notes is that they show that Sartre found himself in a special environment and bid farewell to the Sartre of the past.
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