Sartre On Cuba Jean-Paul Sartre [FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING] 1961 • Ballantine

SARTRE ON CUBA by Jean-Paul Sartre

FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING [1961] BALLANTINE BOOKS

First published as a Ballantine mass market paperback exclusive.

Vintage paperback in very good condition.

Cover shows some visible shelf / edge wear; mild discoloration.

Reads beautifully with some inevitable tanning to pages and an ex-libris plate fixed to underside of front cover.

ABOUT THE BOOK

A FIRST-HAND ACCOUNT OF THE REVOLUTION IN CUBA AND THE YOUNG MEN WHO ARE LEADING IT -WHO THEY ARE AND WHERE THEY ARE GOING.

Jean-Paul Sartre has lived through the most disturbing period in European history, and his philosophical and dramatic works reflect the tension, the aimlessness of a decaying culture. Though he had envisioned a humanism which united thinking and doing, he himself was beginning to doubt whether this was possible in our world. Then he was invited to Cuba. He had been there before and he was not expecting much.

During several weeks he saw youth at work, at humanist work, uniting their thought and action daily in the process of meeting demands. This was a revolution without ideology, untarnished by the cynicism of Europe and North America. And he met Fidel Castro. They traveled together through the island. Castro showed him cooperatives, new beaches, land reclamation projects, hunting and fishing resorts, but most of all Sartre was able to observe, and to participate in Castro's daily activ-ities, his meetings with Cuban peasants, the interplay between these illiterate people and their brilliant leader. After some days the two men had become friends, and Sartre had found his Existentialist Man in action.

SARTRE ON CUBA is his description of Cuba today, of the origins of the revolution, and of the young revolutionary leaders — who they are and where they are going. It is a valuable complement to the recently published work by C. Wright Mills,