, Jean-Paul Sartre’s first novel, was published in 1938. It is widely considered to be his best (he would later publish three novels in his unfinished tetralogy,

). Along with Albert Camus’

(1942), it is arguably the quintessential existentialist novel, and, like Camus’ novel, it is often read as the literary counterpart to philosophical views expressed non-fictionally elsewhere.

is frequently read in relation to Sartre’s philosophical chef-d’œuvre,

(1943). Though it won no literary prizes and was hardly a best seller—it took until 1950 to sell 50,000 copies (Deguy 25)—

was well reviewed by critics who recognized in Sartre an important new literary voice. (Many of these reviews are collected in the…

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