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Arlette Elkaïm-Sartre (15 July 1935 - 16 September 2016) was a French translator and editor, adopted by the writer
Jean-Paul Sartre Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (, ; ; 21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980) was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary criticism, literary critic, considered a leading figure in 20th ...
in 1964.


Life

Born in Constantine, an editor, she worked on the reports of the
Russell Tribunal The Russell Tribunal, also known as the International War Crimes Tribunal, Russell–Sartre Tribunal, or Stockholm Tribunal, was a private people's tribunal organised in 1966 by Bertrand Russell, British philosopher and Nobel Prize winner, and ...
in the late 1960s. In 1956, at age twentyone, she met Sartre. They had a brief affair. In 1965, he adopted her as his daughter. In 1980, upon Sartre's death, she became his universal legatee. She initiated and led the movement for the critical re-editing and posthumous publication of Sartre's work, which began in 1985 with the publication of the two volumes of the '' Critique of Dialectical Reason''. She prefaced works by Sartre. She translated and annotated the Aggadoth of the - ''Ein Yaakov'' (preceded by an Introduction to Talmudic Literature, by Marc-Alain Ouaknin, published by Verdier, series "Les dix paroles", Lagrasse, 1982, re-edited 1990, 1450 pp.). She has also translated for the theatre ''
Oedipus at Colonus ''Oedipus at Colonus'' (also ''Oedipus Coloneus''; , ''Oidipous epi Kolōnō'') is the second of the three Theban plays of the Athenian tragedian Sophocles. It was written shortly before Sophocles's death in 406 BC and produced by his grandson ...
'', a tragedy by Sophocles, performed in 2006 at the Varia theatre in Brussels in a production by Vincent Sornaga. In 2010, she undertook the enlarged and revised edition of the book ''Situations''. Elkaïm died in Paris. She is buried at the
cimetière du Montparnasse Montparnasse Cemetery () is a cemetery in the Montparnasse quarter of Paris, in the city's 14th arrondissement. The cemetery is roughly 47 acres and is the second largest cemetery in Paris. The cemetery has over 35,000 graves, and approximately 1 ...
.


Publications

;Prefaces to the works of J.-P. Sartre * ' ("Bibliothèque de philosophie",
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, 1983). * '' Critique de la raison dialectique'' (New edition with glossary, Gallimard, 1985). * ''Mallarmé, la lucidité et sa face d’ombre'' (Presentation and notes, Arcades, Gallimard, 1986). * ' (Bibliothèque de philosophie, new, revised and expanded edition, Gallimard, 1988). * ''Vérité et existence'' (NRF essais, Gallimard, 1989). * ''La Reine Albemarle ou le dernier touriste'' (Gallimard, 1991). * ' (New edition increased by a new notebook, Gallimard, 1995). Further notes for this same work in '' Les Mots'' and other autobiographical writings.
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, Gallimard 2010. * ''
L'existentialisme est un humanisme ''Existentialism Is a Humanism'' () is a 1946 work by the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, based on a lecture by the same name he gave at Club Maintenant in Paris, on 29 October 1945. In early translations, ''Existentialism and Humanism'' was the ti ...
'' (Folio essais, Gallimard, 1996). * '' The Imaginary''. Psychologie phénoménologique de l’imagination'' '' (Folio essais, new edition Gallimard, 2005). * '' Anti-Semite and Jew'' (new édition, 2005). * ''Typhus'' (Scénario, Gallimard, 2007). * '' What Is Literature?'' (Nouvelle édition, Gallimard, 2009).


Notices and notes for a new edition of ''Situations''

* ''Situations, I,'' (New enlarged edition, presentation, notices and notes, Gallimard, 2010). * ', (New enlarged edition, presentation, notices and notes, Gallimard, 2012). * '', ''(New enlarged edition, presentation, notices and notes, Gallimard, 2013). * ''Situations, IV,'' (New enlarged edition, presentation, notices and notes, Gallimard, 2015). * ''Situations, V,'' (New enlarged edition, presentation, notices and notes, Gallimard, 2018). ;Short stories ; ''Fêtes de nuit'' (Les Temps modernes n° 155, January 1959) ; ''Rayon fillettes'' (Les Temps modernes n° 203, April 1963). ; ''Le retour au pays'' (Les Temps modernes n° 215, April 1964). ; ''Dans le temps'' (Obliques, 1st quarter 1981). ;Articles * À propos '' Les Bonnes Femmes'' (''
Les Temps modernes ''Les Temps Modernes'' () was a French journal, founded by Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Its first issue was published in October 1945. It was named after the 1936 film by Charlie Chaplin. ''Les Temps Moderne ...
'' n°173-174, August–September 1960). * L'Avventura (''Les Temps modernes'' n° 178, February 1961). * Brassens à l’Olympia ''Les Temps Modernes'' n° 187, December 1961). * The Connexion (''Les Temps modernes'' n° 191, April 1962). * Du cinéma considéré comme un assassinat (''Les Temps modernes'' n° 199, December 1962). * ''
The Exterminating Angel ''The Exterminating Angel'' () is a 1962 Mexican surrealism, surrealist black comedy film written and directed by Luis Buñuel. Starring Silvia Pinal and produced by Pinal's then-husband Gustavo Alatriste, the film tells the story of a group of ...
'' (''Les Temps modernes'' n° 206, July 1963). * about ''
''8½'' ( ) is a 1963 Italian avant-garde arthouse comedy-drama film co-written and directed by Federico Fellini. The metafictional narrative centers on famous Italian film director Guido Anselmi ( Marcello Mastroianni) who suffers from writer ...
'' (''Les Temps modernes'' n° 207–208, August/September 1963). * '' Alphaville'' ou Bêtafilm ? (''Les Temps modernes'' n° 229, June 1965). * '' Le vieil homme et l’enfant'' (''Les Temps modernes'' n° 252, May 1967).


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