Paperback. Pub Date: July. 2000 Pages: 160 Publisher: Penguin Classics After HIS father's early death. Jean-Paul Sartre was of ought up at Grandfather's home. HIS in a world even then eighty years out of date. In Words. Sartre recalls growing up within the confines of French provincialism in the period before the First World War. an illusion-ridden childhood made bearable by his lively imagination and passion for reading and writing. A illiant work of self-analysis. Words provides an essential background to the philosophy of one of the profoundest thinkers of the twentieth century.