1st Print 1964 The Words Autobiography Jean-Paul Sartre Nobel Prize Literature

Description: Offered: First Printing September 1964 The Words The Autobiography of Jean -Paul Sartre, George Braziller, New York. Black boards with white lettering and purple, 255 pp. dust jacket not price clipped, internally excellent, former owner name in green pen ffep, dust jacket shows shelf wear, otherwise a good example of the first printing******1964 Jean-Paul Sartre was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for his autobiography, Words (1963). Sartre famously declined the prize, claiming that a writer must “refuse to let himself be transformed into an institution.” The 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded the French writer Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–1980) "for his work which, rich in ideas and filled with the spirit of freedom and the quest for truth, has exerted a far-reaching influence on our age.” Sartre declined the prize, saying that he never accepted any official honors and that he did not want the writer to become an institution. The Swedish Academy said in announcement: "It will be recalled that the laureate has made it known that he did not wish to accept the prize. The fact that he has declined this distinction does not in the least modify the validity of the award. Under the circumstances, however, the Academy can only state that the presentation of the prize cannot take place."[1] It is the only known occasion when a Laureate has voluntarily declined to accept the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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