What Is Literature and Other Essays

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Summary: Existential Literary Theory
Review: I would recommend "What is Literature?" to anyone interested in literature, philosophy, and existentialism. Sartre explores why we read, why writers write, and the situation of the writer after WWII. Also included are several essays, one on Les Temps Modernes, and another on African Disporia literature. Particularly interesting is how Sartre traces the situation of the writer for the last four hundred years and his theories of writing as "praxis".