"My Foolish Son - A Study of Flaubert" - My Foolish Son

...The reason he was seen as a representative intellectual of his era was, of course, because his ideas were unparalleled in their grand scale, but at the same time, it was also because he spoke solely to his contemporaries, intending to perish along with the times. His writings are enormous, but in addition to those mentioned above, his other important works include Critique of Dialectical Reason (1960), the theoretical culmination of his third period, Saint Genet (1952) and The Foolish Son of the House: An Essay on Flaubert (1971-72), which elucidate the formation of the writer by making full use of existential psychoanalysis, and his plays No Exit (1944), Dirty Hands (1948), Devil and God (1951), Keene (1953), and The Prisoners of Altona (1959), as well as the 10-volume series Situations, a collection of writings written in response to the circumstances of the time, such as What is Literature? and Communists and Peace. Sartre's influence on Japan after the Second World War was extremely wide-ranging and profound.

*Some of the terminology used in "The Foolish Son of the House - A Study of Flaubert" is listed below.

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…　このように彼が一時代の代表的知識人と見なされたのは，むろん彼の思想が他に類のないほどスケールの大きなものだったからであるが，同時に彼が時代とともに滅び去るつもりで，ひたすら同時代人に語りかけたためでもあった。その著作は膨大な量に上るが，上記のもののほか重要な作品は，まず第3期の理論的到達点である《弁証法的理性批判》(1960)，また〈実存的精神分析〉を縦横に駆使しながら作家の形成を解明した《聖ジュネ》(1952)と《家の馬鹿息子――フローベール論》(1971‐72)，戯曲として《出口なし》(1944)，《汚れた手》(1948)，《悪魔と神》(1951)，《キーン》(1953)，《アルトナの幽閉者》(1959)，それに，〈文学とは何か〉や〈共産主義者と平和〉など，そのときどきの状況に応じて書かれた文章を集めた《シチュアシオン》全10巻などである。　なお，サルトルが第2次大戦後の日本に与えた影響はきわめて広く，また深い。…

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