Sartre was unusually stirred by his meeting with Fanon

Evidence

Sartre fell for Fanon immediately, and was delighted to write a foreword for The Wretched of the Earth. He already liked Fanon’s work, and he liked him even better in person. Lanzmann later commented that he had never seen Sartre so captivated by a man as at that meeting. The four of them talked through lunch, then all through the afternoon, then all evening, until 2 a.m., when Beauvoir finally insisted that Sartre needed to sleep. Fanon was offended: ‘I don’t like people who hoard their resources.’ He kept Lanzmann up until eight the next morning. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 867

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• SHARE: The Fanon vs. Sartre stamina clash — ‘I don’t like people who hoard their resources’ — is a vivid anecdote worth sending to a friend interested in either thinker.