With Jorge Semprun, he argued against the "new novel" in the "What Can Literature Do?" debate.  Earlier, he claimed that the absurdity and lack of syntactic causality employed by Meursault yields a Voltairean effect in his "Commentary on The Stranger," and he refused to address poetic Beauty, favoring anti-Freduain psychoanalysis, in his book-length essay on Baudelaire. This founder of the journal Modern Times also lionized the author of Our Lady of the Flowers in (*) Saint Genet and claimed that "reading is directed creation," because the publ
With Jorge Semprun, he argued against the "new novel" in the "What Can Literature Do?" debate.  Earlier, he claimed that the absurdity and lack of syntactic causality employed by Meursault yields a Voltairean effect in his "Commentary on The Stranger," and he refused to address poetic Beauty, favoring anti-Freduain psychoanalysis, in his book-length essay on Baudelaire. This founder of the journal Modern Times also lionized the author of Our Lady of the Flowers in (*) Saint Genet and claimed that "reading is directed creation," because the public can change anything it reads due to a writer's being "outside language," in his "What is Literature?", which applied to art a philosophyy that he had previously declared "is a humanism" based on the idea that "existence precedes essence." For 10 points, name this French critic who also composed Dirty Hands, "The Wall," Nausea, and Being and Nothingness.
With Jorge Semprun, he argued against the "new novel" in the "What Can Literature Do?" debate.  
Jean-Paul {Sartre}