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praxis

as a producer and revolutionary, he is par excellence, the subject of a literature of praxis

—p.194 Situation of the Writer in 1947 (128) by Jean-Paul Sartre
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the slender thread of his gaze inspo/misc topic/literary-theory

[...] The writer, in opposition to bourgeois ideology, chose to speak to us of things at the privileged moment when all the concrete relations which united him with the objects were broken, save the slender thread of his gaze, and when they gently undid themselves to his eyes, untied sheaves of exq…

—p.182 Situation of the Writer in 1947 (128) by Jean-Paul Sartre
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that our books remain in the air topic/literary-theory

[...] We hope that our books remain in the air all by themselves and that their words, instead of pointing backwards towards the one who has designed them, will be toboggans, forgotten, unnoticed, and solitary, which will hurl the reader into the midst of a universe where there are no witnesses; in…

—p.176 Situation of the Writer in 1947 (128) by Jean-Paul Sartre
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Sartre on Kafka

We did not want to delight our public with its superiority to a dead world--we wanted to take it by the throat. Let every character be a trap, let the reader be caught in it, and let him be tossed from one consciousness to another as from one absolute and irremediable universe to another similarly …

—p.174 Situation of the Writer in 1947 (128) by Jean-Paul Sartre
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the great polar night of the inhuman inspo/misc

[...] they no longer felt humanity as a limitless milieu. It was a thin flame within them which they alone kept alive. It kept itself going in the silence which they opposed to their executioners. About them was nothing but the great polar night of the inhuman and of unknowingness, which they did n…

—p.170 Situation of the Writer in 1947 (128) by Jean-Paul Sartre