Tag Archives: Sartre

Never Mind the Camus: Sartre’s Typhus is the Existential Plague Fiction We Need

Posted on December 15, 2020 by Giorgio Bertini

Albert Camus has been having a good pandemic, sixty years after he died. Copies of The Plague have sold faster than publishers can print them in many languages across the world, an abundance of newspaper and magazine articles have extolled … Continue reading →

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Be a meaning maker: Sartre and existential freedom

Posted on July 4, 2019 by Giorgio Bertini

Stevens is the narrator of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Booker prize-winning novel, The Remains of the Day (1989). Anthony Hopkins owned the role in the Academy Award-nominated film adaptation of 1993. The story begins in the 1950s, when Stevens receives a letter … Continue reading →

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