What Is Literature?

What is literature? (French title: Qu'est ce que la littérature?) is a 1947 book by Jean-Paul Sartre. (Alternative title: Literature and Existentialism)

It is divided into three topics of discussion, What isis of the audience, he condemns the bourgeoisie as being devoid of culture, claims authors and poets are outside of language and are trapped, and states that the writer must write for a public which has the freedom of changing everything.

Sartre in this manifesto leaves aside the lonely man, from which existentialism is founded, and devises an understanding of the effect it has on its reader subject.

The second chapter of this book, entitled 'Why Write?' has been reprinted as a free standing essay in it's own right. One notable translation from the original French is that of Bernard Frechtman (1949). This is the standard translation used.

Literature is not only what we write but it can also be somthing that is told over and over through many years. Like in the african tradition. Literature is a ver diverse topic and in depend who you are to understand waht you see as literature