On The Political Thou Ghts Of Sartre’s "what I S Literature?"

The main aim in Sartre’s “What is Literature?” is the intervention of literature, which is based on his existentialist philosophy and expressed a politics of literature through writing itself. Literature is not a instrument of politics, but an exposition and break out the reality by words. Literature is a free undertaking and a responsibility for intervention. He who makes literature passes on and send for the freedom for people, urging them to acting and carrying out their freedom. Literature ought to be responsible for the others, the society and all human being. Intellectuals should write for their times and intervene the reality. Words as weapons for strugggle, make the reality unmasked and change the world, which is the gun full of bullets aiming the object and shooting at any moment. A writer should care about the reality and write for the life of the time, through which he calls up the freedom for people, not least his readers. In doing this, he is a real writer, his literature is a real intervention.“What is Literature?” shows that the power of words can change the world, which is not understanding the world, as bourgeois literature did justify the domination of capitialism, but a change of the world by the weapons of words. If we see the literature as idiology, the intervention of literature is the struggle in the field of ideology, in this respect, it is stands on the side of proletariate, which is the political struggle itself, or political struggle is present in cultural field. Sartre however did not ascribe the literature to the politics, or as a slave of it. Literature,instead, had its own value, its autonomy, which showed that literature itself was a undertaking of freedom, calling up freedom for people. Sartre’s emphasis of the power of literature or discourse itself, impacts strongly on subsequent left-wing thought in the west.