Description
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) was a French novelist, playwright, and philosopher. He is known as the leading exponent of existentialism. Together with his life partner, Simone de Beauvoir, his work is marked by philosophical reflections on life and the dismissal of social and cultural assumptions they considered to be overly bourgeois. His novel Nausea and collection of short stories The Wall are considered some of his most famous works. Sartre made a custom of declining official honours, feeling that “a writer should not allow himself to be turned into an institution.” It was in this spirit that he, in 1964, declined to accept the Nobel Prize for Literature, awarded to him “for his work which, rich in ideas and filled with the spirit of freedom and the quest for truth, has exerted a far-reaching influence on our age.”.
The conception and design behind our bookends stem from Swedish renowned industrial designer, Jan Landqvist and are made in the small town of Gnosjö in the south of Sweden.
Measurements:
Portrait – 15×15 cm
Base – 10×15 cm
