1975年,法国20世纪最具影响的思想家萨特在《新观察家》周刊上发表了《七十岁自画像》一文,对自己70年以来的人生进行总结。其时,结构主义已然在法国兴起,大有取代萨特之势,这篇总结性的文章可谓正逢其时。该文是萨特自述中最重要的文献,亦是研究者理解萨特最重要的文献之一。在该文发表的两年前开始,萨特就双目失明,无法再继续写作,他只有通过与别人的谈话来表达自己的思想,而《七十岁自画像》一文是 In 1975, Sartre, the most influential thinker in the 20th century in France, published a seventy-year-old self portrait in The New Observer Weekly to summarize his life over the past 70 years. At the time, structuralism was already rising in France, which greatly replaced Sartre. This concluding article was timely. This article is the most important document in Sartre’s self-report and one of the most important articles for researchers to understand Sartre. Two years before the publication of the article, Sartre was blind and unable to continue writing. He only expressed his thoughts through conversations with others. The article entitled “Seventy-year-old Self-Portrait” was