L'obsession de la mort chez le petit Poulou

Abstract

Writing his own biography is like making his confession in front of the altar of the truth. In The words,Sartre writes his own child life from the view of a philosopher-thinker. He presents his days spent justlike a series of images carrying advices and experiencesto whole the world. The words shows the life of a small orphan who met early with death when he lost his father. Then death becomes as his shadow that goes with him on day and night until the end. The mother of the little Poulou seems like the mirror that reflects the sadness and the melancholy of the dark and gloomy days. The small Poulou becomes his only consolation in misery. The little Jean -Paul lives completely in a literary atmosphere . Because his grandfather Karl Schweitzer sanctifies the literature and men of letters who have left their fingerprints in the heart of human consciousness. Reading in The -28- words like seeing the experiences of others to benefitfrom it in the future. Writing is like choosing the roadin life without intervention of celeste or terrestrial ideologies. That is to say, Man must write his own destiny.Because Sartre believes that Man is the master of the world and the existence despite the idea of death thatdestroys the dream of human being to be immortal.