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BANKING ON SIGNS

The posthumous publication of the copious journals Sartre kept while a soldier during the Second World War reveals, in particular sections of his daily meditations, surprising speculations that were not to return and solidify until much later in his completed works. While he was at that time preparing his major existentialist work, various parts of his journal reveal an engagement with analyses of a different, much more historical and sociological nature, analyses he would not complete until dozens of years later when his encounter with marxism had become explicit. One of these analyses, perhaps more perspicacious than those found in Being and Nothingness and written in a style one would be hard-pressed to call existentialist (since on the contrary, pushed far enough it would no doubt run the risk of running contrary to existentialism itself), concerns an agitated reading of Valery Larbaud's A. 0. Barnabooth and the notion of availability [disponibilite] in Gide's ethic. Published in 1913, A. 0. Barnabooth is purportedly the diary a young and idle American millionaire kept while traveling alone in the day car of his train during his long travels through the major European capitals. This young man, one of the world's richest, freed himself from worry over his material possessions. He sold his yacht, all of his castles, villas, automobiles, and his "immenses proprietes" [12]. Afterwards, he felt relieved, having "rejected his goods like unseasonal clothing" [24]; he set out "in search of the absolute" [24], claiming as any of the world's poor might-and not without irony and cynicism-both to be penetrating "the domains of impersonal reason and pure thought" [24] and to be escaping the malediction of being reduced to the pat and humiliating stereotype of the "American millionaire."