Lispector has been compared to Jean-Paul Sartre, for her sense of life's senselessness, and to Franz Kafka.

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In the 1950s many intellectuals, including Jean-Paul Sartre, clung to pro-Soviet idealism even after the evils of Stalinism emerged.

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His stance led to the quarrel with Jean-Paul Sartre and others at Les Temps Modernes, postwar Paris's leading intellectual magazine.

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In the bitter phrase of Jean-Paul Sartre, with whom he sparred for years, he preferred to view men like ants.

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His own artistic talents were revealed in the beautiful catalogues he commissioned, with essays by Ernest Hemingway, Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus.

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So here was a billionaire daring to erect a new building near where Jean-Paul Sartre had lectured workers in the spring of 1968.

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Jean-Paul Sartre, who was a philospher, dramatist and critic as well as a novelist, was too interested in himself to immortalise Simone de Beauvoir.

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At age 16, Branson launched a youth-culture periodical called Student Magazine, sporting columns and interviews from novelists James Baldwin and Alice Walker and existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre.

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Yet, at the time of his death, Camus found himself an outcast in Paris, snubbed by Jean-Paul Sartre and other left-bank intellectuals, and denounced for his freethinking refusal to yield to fashionable political views.

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But the text is informed and witty, the North Korean scenes sketched with what reads like first-hand knowledge, and there is an engaging take on cultural preoccupations from Karl Marx to Jean-Paul Sartre and Bob Dylan, played out against the unlikely skyline of Pyongyang with its empty boulevards and permanently unfinished multi-storey hotels.

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