Sartre’s Critique first volume ran nearly 400,000 words while the second went unfinished

Evidence

The book was formidably difficult to bring off. Sartre published the first volume, Theory of Practical Ensembles, in 1960; that alone reached nearly 400,000 words. The second volume — surprise! — was never finished. He made extensive notes but could not get it into shape. These notes were published posthumously in 1985. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 854

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• XREF: connects to: Sartre’s Flaubert biography spanned 2,800 pages and stayed unfinished — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 703