Jean-Paul SARTRE (1905-1980). Autograph manuscript; 1page 3/4 in-4. Interesting reflection on literature. "Why do we write? Everyone has his reasons, of course. For one, art is an escape; for another, it's a way of taking hold of the world. But whatever a writer's particular motives may be, they are part of a more general choice that has to do with the very essence of writing. Literary art, like all other arts and crafts, aims to produce a certain object that phenomenologists would call the literary noeme. But this object is very different from the others. [...] The writer never creates the aesthetic object by himself and for himself. For it to come into being, a second operation called reading is necessary, and this operation requires a different kind of personnel. He who writes cannot read what he writes"...