Famous Translations -- The Unlawful

Author: (French) Jean-Paul Sartre, translated by Zheng Yonghui, Gui Yufang, etc.
Publisher:
Publish Date: 2005-12-01
Features: As long as Jean-Paul Sartre exists, France will have a literary life, a life of intellectual exchange, and a life of ending hasty conclusions among those who are not professional philosophers and witty writers. — Maurice (French) In nearly three decades, French thought, whether it likes it or not, should also refer to Sartre for positioning, regardless of whether it uses Marx, Hegel, or Kierkegaard as coordinates. — Sartre (French) The Transgressor is a novel with strong autobiographical elements by the French writer Jean-Paul Sartre, which recounts the story of a man who defies traditional customs and attempts to follow his personal inclinations. The protagonist, Michel, travels to North Africa with his wife, Mathurine. Unfortunatly, he contracts tuberculosis. While Mathurine cares for him, she discovers that he does not love her and has a homosexual tendency. Upon returning to France, Michel meets the morally transcendent Ménard, who advises him to forget the past and indulge in sensual pleasures. Soon after, Mathurine falls ill and dies, and completely free, Michel decides to give in to his desires. The novel promotes the transgressionism that Sartre advocated, which is embodied in the bold defiance of all established moral concepts by the protagonist. It breaks through the shackles of religion and family, indulging in the natural instincts of humanity and pursuing a life ideal of individualism. In terms of art, the novel breaks the traditional novelistic model of the 19th century and expresses the complex thoughts and emotions of modern people in the perfect form of French classical literature, reshaping a new paradigm for the traditional novelistic model. In 1947, Sartre won the Nobel Prize in Literature for works such as The Transgressor for "portraying the problems and situations of humanity with an fearless love for truth and keen psychological insight."