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The Story I Tell Myself: A Venture in Existentialist Autobiography
Best known as the writer who introduced French existentialism to English-speaking readers through her translation of Sartre's
Being and Nothingness
, Hazel E. Barnes has written an autobiography that is both the success story of a professional woman as well as a profoundly moving reflection on growing older. Transcending the personal details of her life, Barnes' memoir stan
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Hardcover
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370 pages
Published
October 1st 1997
by University Of Chicago Press
(first published June 28th 1997)
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This autobiography of Hazel Barnes deserves to be approached with gentleness. Hazel Barnes translated Jean-Paul Sartre's "L'Être et le néant : Essai d'ontologie phénoménologique" into English as "Being and Nothingness" during the 1950s. Thus, she single-handedly introduced Sartre's most important work to the United States.
I say her autobiography deserves to be approached with gentleness because it would be easy to dismiss it as uninteresting or even bad. I don't believe that it is either. She wr ...more
I say her autobiography deserves to be approached with gentleness because it would be easy to dismiss it as uninteresting or even bad. I don't believe that it is either. She wr ...more
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