Arlette Elkaïm-Sartre (1935 [1] - 16 September 2016 [2]) was a French translator and editor, adopted by the writer Jean-Paul Sartre in 1964. [3]
Born in Constantine, an editor, she worked on the reports of the Russell Tribunal in the late 1960s.
In 1956, at age twentyone, she met Sartre. They had a brief affair. In 1965, he adopted her as his daughter. [4]
In 1980, upon Sartre's death, she became his universal legatee. [5]
She initiated and led the movement for the critical re-editing and posthumous publication of Sartre's work, which began in 1985 with the publication of the two volumes of the Critique of Dialectical Reason. She prefaced works by Sartre.
She translated and annotated the Aggadoth of the Talmud of Babylon - Ein Yaakov (preceded by an Introduction to Talmudic Literature, by Marc-Alain Ouaknin, published by Verdier, series "Les dix paroles", Lagrasse, 1982, re-edited 1990, 1450 pp.).
She has also translated for the theatre Oedipus at Colonus, a tragedy by Sophocles, performed in 2006 at the Varia theatre in Brussels in a production by Vincent Sornaga.
In 2010, she undertook the enlarged and revised edition of the book Situations.
Elkaïm died in Paris. She is buried at the cimetière du Montparnasse. [2]
Arlette Elkaïm-Sartre (1935 [1] - 16 September 2016 [2]) was a French translator and editor, adopted by the writer Jean-Paul Sartre in 1964. [3]
Born in Constantine, an editor, she worked on the reports of the Russell Tribunal in the late 1960s.
In 1956, at age twentyone, she met Sartre. They had a brief affair. In 1965, he adopted her as his daughter. [4]
In 1980, upon Sartre's death, she became his universal legatee. [5]
She initiated and led the movement for the critical re-editing and posthumous publication of Sartre's work, which began in 1985 with the publication of the two volumes of the Critique of Dialectical Reason. She prefaced works by Sartre.
She translated and annotated the Aggadoth of the Talmud of Babylon - Ein Yaakov (preceded by an Introduction to Talmudic Literature, by Marc-Alain Ouaknin, published by Verdier, series "Les dix paroles", Lagrasse, 1982, re-edited 1990, 1450 pp.).
She has also translated for the theatre Oedipus at Colonus, a tragedy by Sophocles, performed in 2006 at the Varia theatre in Brussels in a production by Vincent Sornaga.
In 2010, she undertook the enlarged and revised edition of the book Situations.
Elkaïm died in Paris. She is buried at the cimetière du Montparnasse. [2]