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sethlynch's review
2.0
After reading this, any Anglo-American troops that came across Sartre will have wanted to flush his head down the toilet. I like Sartre but this came across as a particularly whiny piece.
kikiandarrowsfishshelf's review
4.0
Sartre and I have a history. On the one hand, I have read [book:No Exit|123933] in French, and quite frankly, you have never experienced life until you have seen a French Professor who is a nun search for the French word for nymphomaniac and then finish the sentence with like Blanche from the Golden Girls. On the other read, my boring college philosophy teacher talked about [book:The Flies / Les Mouches|23125627] every darn day. So it's a complicated relationship.
Like many of the Occupied French Sartre's relationship with the Germans was confused as well (I think all of Sartre's relationships are confused but that is just me). Yet, I think if you are trying to understand or to reach an understanding about France during WW II, you must read this essay. In particular with [book:An Eye for an Eye|13631780].
Like many of the Occupied French Sartre's relationship with the Germans was confused as well (I think all of Sartre's relationships are confused but that is just me). Yet, I think if you are trying to understand or to reach an understanding about France during WW II, you must read this essay. In particular with [book:An Eye for an Eye|13631780].
geoffreyg's review
5.0
My French isn't good enough to read Sartre in the original French, but this translation has made this intellectual work a pleasure to read. Paris Under the Occupation is a finely drawn study of the French, and the French character, during the dark years of 1940-45. It leaves the reader with a powerful insight, for example: 'A living human being is first and foremost a project, a work in progress ... {the occupation} robbed human beings of their future. ...we had no more destiny than a nail or a door latch.' Great work, outstanding translation.
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