The Wall (book) - "The Childhood of A Leader"

"The Childhood of A Leader"

A tale of the mental progress of a boy named Lucien Fleurier from around age 4 to his early adulthood. Lucien, the son of a rich industrialist, searches for identity and meaning in order to find out "what's wrong" with him. He journeys from Freudian psychoanalysis and being a one-time sexual partner of a paederast poet, to finally becoming part of a Fascist youth organisation and killing a Jewish man who is reading l'Humanité, with his friends.

Works by Jean-Paul Sartre
Novels
  • Nausea
  • The Wall
  • The Age of Reason

The Reprieve

  • Troubled Sleep
  • The Chips Are Down
Plays
  • The Flies
  • No Exit
  • Morts sans sépulture
  • The Respectful Prostitute
  • Dirty Hands
  • "Orphée Noir"
  • The Devil and the Good Lord
  • The Condemned of Altona
Philosophical treatises
  • The Transcendence of the Ego
  • Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions
  • Being and Nothingness
  • Existentialism and Humanism
  • Existentialism and Human Emotions
  • Search for a Method
  • Critique of Dialectical Reason
Non-fiction
  • Anti-Semite and Jew
  • What Is Literature?
  • Baudelaire (book)
  • Situations (essay series)
  • The Words
  • The Family Idiot
Related topics
  • Authenticity
  • Bad faith (mauvaise foi)
  • Existence precedes essence

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