Sartre by Himself

Michel Contat is Emeritus Director of Research at the CNRS ITEMCNRSENS and a specialist of JeanPaul Sartre whose novels and theater he has edited in the Pléiade edition and about whom he has written several books With Alexander Astruc he made the film Sartre par luimême 1976 and with Antoine Burnier cowrote the script of Claude Garrettas TV film Sartre LAge des passions 2006 As a journalist Contat contributed literary columns for Le Monde since 1978 and as an amateur musician he was the jazz columnist for the magazine Télérama His most recent books are Pour Sartre 2006 and André Gorz vers la société libérée 2009