From “What is Literature?” by Sartre

[paulshandy]

“Let us bear in mind that the man who reads strips himself in some way of his empirical personality and escapes from his resentments, his fears, and his lusts in order to put himself at the peak of his freedom. This freedom takes the literary work and, through it, mankind, for absolute ends. It sets itself up as an unconditioned exigence in

Comments

[bardcat]

I understand and appreciate what Sartre is saying and what you are agreeing with, but....I like your empirical personality.