Highly influential French writer and philosopher (1905–1980), most closely associated with existentialism, who refused the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1964. ANS in French, signed “J. Sartre,” one page on a 8.25 x 10.5 sheet of graph paper, no date. In part (translated): “Lotta Continua [a newspaper] is about to be banned…. Freedom of the revolutionary press is once more at stake. I am calling on Italian writers … to take on the direction of the paper, individually or collectively.” Intersecting folds (lightly touching signature) and a few mild wrinkles, otherwise fine condition. RRAuction COA.
