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The Words

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The Words (Les Mots, 1963) is Jean-Paul Sartre's autobiography of his own childhood, an unsentimental account of a bookish, fatherless boy's discovery of literature as a kind of religion, and of his own later disillusionment with that discovery. It is widely credited with tipping the Swedish Academy toward awarding him the Nobel Prize the following year, a prize he then declined.

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from 1963 2
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to 1963 3
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Novel 4
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is the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre's 1963 autobiography.
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  • Composed, From (Year): from 1963
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3. Jean-Paul Sartre, The Words (1963)
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4. Open Library: Open Library search: The Words by Jean-Paul Sartre
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