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Article: Sartre, Self-Formation and Masculinities.(Book review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- April 1, 2006
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Sartre, Self-Formation and Masculinities. By JEAN-PIERRE BOULE. New York and Oxford: Berghahn. 2005. 228 pp. 42 [pounds sterling] (pbk 15 [pounds sterling]). ISBN 1-57181-742-5 (pbk 1-57181-743-3).
This is an intrepid psychobiography of Sartre the man, of Sartre as a man. Jean-Pierre Boule's analytical tools are drawn principally from developmental psychology (and to a lesser extent psychoanalysis) and from the theory of masculinities. Prominent in Boule's corpus are the Ecrits de jeunesse, Annie Cohen-Solal's biography (Sartre 1905-1980 (Paris: Gallimard, 1985)), the correspondence with and testimony of Beauvoir and, least flatteringly perhaps for Sartre, Cau's ...