Page Four THE MICHIGAN DAILY Sunday, April 13, 1975 Page Four THE MICHIGAN DAILY Sunday, Aprif B, 1975 1 27 YOM HA'ATZM ISRAEL INDEPENDENCE DA CELEBRATION with Moti Giladi TC? ISRAELI PERFORMER The L DANCE' MONDAY, APRIL at the Michigan Union Ball 7:00-INFORMATIONAL PROGRA aspects of Israeli Life. 8:00-YOM HAZIKRON-Memoria who have fallen in defense Followed by THE PERFORMA -ADMISSION FREE- Sponsored by n HILLEL and th ISRAELI STUDENT ORGAN IZA U 0 M*VALUABLE COUPON FREE PEP! UPON REQUEST AUT uyehi TROUPE 14 room MS on all al for those of Israel. NCE he TION II II Larger upon ,ZA. YI A For objectiVI BETWEEN EXISTENTIAL- work as a continuous whole. ISM AND MARXISM, by Sartre's sensibility - his under- Jean-Paul Sartre, New York: standing and acceptance of Pantheon, 1975. 380 p., $10.00. paradox, his clear, reflective thought process, and, most of By DEBRA HUJRWITZ all, his persistent query into the TN HIS writings, Jean P a u 1 character of reality - permeat- Sartre has stood back from es his words and sentences, ind life in order to be possessed by provides the thread which links it. He has carried on a constant the essays together. search to objectify his exper- The fact that he has been ience; always it has been the writing for so very long fascin- process of searching rather than ates Sartre. The man known understanding itself that most primarily for his philosophical obsessed him. Knowing the treatise, Being and Nothing- world to be what it is, the na- ness, as well as a number of ture of experience being one of philosophical-cum-literary works constant flux, any answer for with, as one critic put it, "such Sartre is of necessity a tem- loathesome titles as The Flies porary and relative one. and Nausea," is a man deeply It is the search itself which committed to literature. Indeed, Sartre has exemplified in his he feels that all writers, no mat- writings. Between Existential- ter how apparently detached ism and Marxism is an eclectic from their work, are in reaity collection of Sartre's words, ver- committed. bal as well as written. Inter-j views, essays, and lecture tran- THE FIRST essay in Between scripts constitute the book, Existentialism and Marxism, which is loosely arranged into "The Purposes of Writing," is five sections: "Self-Descrip- the transcription of a 195) in- tions," "Politics', "Philosophy/ terview with Sartre conducted Poetry/Painting," "Psychoana- by Madeleine Chapsal. In it,t lysis," and "Intellectuals." Sartre maintains that literature, Though its Table of Contents if not worth everything, is reads somewhat like a haphaz- worth nothing: "This is what I ard assembly of generally unre- meant by 'commitment'. (Liter- lated subjects, the book does ature) wilts if it is reduced to J lEAN-PAUL SARTRE BOOKS Ftry to4 innocence, or to songs. If a writ- ten sentence does not rever- berate at every level of man and society, then it makes no sense. What is the literature of an epoch but the epoch appre priated by its literature? * Sartre further believes that the beauty of literature lies in "its desire to be everything." Only a whole, he claims, can be truly beautiful in any sort of non-sterile way. Literature's promise is to convey every- thing; if it does not, it has fail- ed. Chapsal, no doubt finding this statement rather ambitious, asked Sartre if he felt litera- ture had fulfilled all its prom- ises. He replied, "I don t be- lieve it can fulfill them, not in my case, nor in that of anyone in particular." Yet, curiously enough,-Sartre does not see the fact behind this statement ;Es any sort of stultifying f o r c e Despite the impossibility ' ever achieving everything, each writ- er must nevertheless aspire to it in order to have hopes of ac- complishing something. PUT WHY WRITE, asks ' h e discouraged disciple, if one has no hope of actually achiev- ing one's aspiration? A Sartre's answer is two-fold. First, he, Secondly, each individual writer's product is seen in con- junction with other writings. As totality is involved in the ac- tivities of every individual, so every individual is a part of totality. The interaction of all the components which makn the whole is one characteristic of Sartre's view of reality. Piece after interlocking piece, reality moves and metamo-pnoses, al- ways maintaining a sort of es- sential tension between all its parts. In "The Itineracy of a' Thought," Sartre explores the changes in his philosophical foundations after the Second World War. He feels .he war taught him the "powver of cir- card ilE claims writing is a need felt by everyone: "every single pwrson feels, perhaps only uncons;:io)s- ly, the need to be a witness of his time, of his life - before the eyes of all, to be a witness to himself." Writing is a means of pu. ifying experience, free- ing each event out of the flow of reality, expressing an exper- ience in order to retali it. Sartre conceives of our impulse to write as one which arises from a desire to disengage our own particular experien ;a from "all the elements which crush it." , its elf I cumstances," and tha- this ; s- son prompted his re il ;atrn of the complexities of :x; rience. Where he once thought -- qire fervently - that the human was always free to choos . he can now conceive of inniumerahe situations in which cic:umstanc- es render a choice, any ctliicc, impossible. ('LEARLY, SARTRE envisions paradox as an undeniable part of experience. As did Don- ne and Mallarme before him, DdILIVa racrar j d.:vArw m'ttprI c 1 1 t J i 1 Sartre regaras paraaox matter- - of-factly and is finally neither for "every level of man and shocked nor distressed by it s society," I can tes'ifv to the ubiquity. In fact, 1is m o s t multiplicity of far of iT y famous idea is based on para- own experience which respond dox. In his explication of real- to Sartre's words. Fur:hwr, the ity, that end toward which all his connective tissue betweet the works tend, he mainains thatsetosurns out ro by noth- despite the utter depenaen-e of ing othertthan the ofe'i para- thought, belief, and action upon doxical, hard-to-gras,, tenets of circumstances external to the Sartre's philosophy By foring individual, each per4 o is till the reader to reflect on the ori- ultimately responsible for what gins of its unmistakean e I o w, he becomes. Between Existentialism and j IKE SARTRE'S picturf of Marxism structurall ras well as reality, this book is a whole s Sartre's main lines of thought. which maintains a tenion he-! tween its parts. And like his notion of successful literature, it reverberates at a great many Debra Hurwitz is a Daily levels. While I cannot speak Editorial Page staff member. W ith Every Pizza wit * Sun U 4 :0o- I * 7 * FREE ONE CO Medium or th This COL .; April 13 8:00 P.M. 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