We Have Only This Life to Live is the first gathering of Sartre's essays in Engl
ish to draw on all ten volumes of Situations, the title under which Sartre colle
cted his essays during his life, while also featuring previously uncollected wor
k, including the reports Sartre filed during his 1945 trip to America. Here Sart
re writes about Faulkner, Bataille, Giacometti, Fanon, the liberation of France,
torture in Algeria, existentialism and Marxism, friends lost and found, and muc
h else. We Have Only This Life to Live provides an indispensable, panoramic view
of the world of Jean-Paul Sartre.
