Sartre's second century

Literature and Philosophy in Sartre's Early Writings 41
Sartre describes a small provincial town as a symbol of hell on earth:
everywhere manners mask violence, cowardice, cynicism, cruelty, and
cupidity.
The Influence of Metaphysics on the Early
Phenomenological Works
Written in Berlin, The Transcendence of the Ego and "A Fundamental
Idea of Husserlian Phenomenology: Intentionality" are two proper
philosophical works using the rigorous Husserlian method of
transcendental reduction. The challenge is to display a transcendental
phenomenology inspired by Husserl, but simultaneously criticising
HusserPs Logical Investigations, the first volume of Ideas and the
Cartesian Meditations, But the way Sartre works in Berlin is very
interesting.
In the film made in 1972 by Alexandre Astruc and Michel Contat, 29
Sartre explains that when he was in Berlin he worked at his philosophical
works in the morning and that in the afternoon he settled down to his
literary task, that is to say, he tried to rewrite his "pamphlet about
contingency", which was to be published later in 1938 under the title,
Nausea. Sartre's schedule is significant. It would be misleading to claim
that he mixes his two activities. For him, the ways of writing philosophy
and literature are essentially different, as he clearly explained in 1975:
In philosophy, every sentence should have only one meaning. [...] In
literature, which in some way always has to do with what has been
experienced [vecu], nothing that I say is totally expressed by what I say.
The same reality can be expressed in a practically infinite number of
ways. 30
This is the main reason why there is a sharp contrast between the
philosophical and the literary manuscripts: all of the philosophical
manuscripts are written in one go; on the other hand, the literary
manuscripts are scratched out, erased and rewritten many times.
Nevertheless, the fact remains that there is a connection between
philosophy and literature in the early works of Sartre, especially in the
works of the mid-1930s. For example, in the "pamphlet on contingency",
Roquentin's adventures express two metaphysical convictions that are not
assumed as such by the phenomenologist because they are in principle
Sartre, unfilm, 44.
Sartre, "Self-Portrait at Seventy", 7-8.