The WordsBy: Jean Paul Sartre Jean Paul Sartre's famous autobiography of his first ten years has been widely compared to Rousseau's Confessions. Written when he was fifty nine years old, The Words is a masterpiece of self analysis. Sartre the philosopher, novelist and playwright brings to his own childhood the same rigor of honesty and insight he applied so brilliantly to other authors. Born into a gentle, book loving family and raised by a widowed mother and