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she took Sartre's novels as the starting point for examining his thought, which she characterized as influenced by "three post-Hegelian movements: the
Marxist, the existentialist, and the phenomenological", while being "profoundly and self-consciously contemporary". As well as
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reviewed the 1987 edition along with new biographies of Sartre. Bok noted that her "perspective, rooted, as was Sartre's, in philosophy and in literature" was necessary in order to understand Sartre's "role and his intellectual legacy". Similarly, Parini concluded in
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