Heidegger was recognized by contemporary Parisian playwrights as an aloof hut-dwelling philosopher.

Evidence

The two men had a conversation in German — Sartre’s command of the language was just about up to this. Neither participant gave us a first-hand account of what was said, but Heidegger talked about it to Petzet, and Sartre talked about it to Beauvoir, after which both she and Petzet made notes. According to both, the dialogue quickly went haywire. Heidegger brought up the subject of La dimension Florestan, a recent play by Gabriel Marcel which poked fun at an unnamed philosopher who holed himself up in a remote hut, emitting only the occasional incomprehensible pronouncement. Someone had told Heidegger about it, and, although he had not seen or heard the play himself, he had no difficulty in recognising its target and was unamused. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 657

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the popular caricature of Heidegger as the Sage of Todtnauberg, later discussed in biographies and in the general Sartre-Heidegger rivalry literature. — connects to: Contemporary observers read Heidegger’s persona as rural and unpolished — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 244
• CANDY: A French playwright satirized Heidegger as a man in a hut emitting incomprehensible pronouncements — great dinner-party fact.

Broader Connections

• Contemporary observers read Heidegger’s persona as rural and unpolished #expands (0.80) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 244