Watch Dr Andy Martin (Cambridge) talk on “Nausea in New York: the FBI & CIA vs Sartre and Camus”
In 1940s New York, FBI alarm bells are ringing: the Existentialists are coming! J. Edgar Hoover has to know: what the hell is this Existentialism all about anyway – and is it some kind of code for Communism? He sets his agents on the trail of first Jean-Paul Sartre (1945) and then Albert Camus (1946). […]