I previously grumbled about how hard it was to navigate Jean-Paul Sartre’s Situations. I went looking for an essay in the French, only to find it was in one volume of the original edition and a different volume of the revised edition. I then found this wasn’t an isolated example, but that the second edition broke with Sartre’s own organisation and went with a more chronological one, including many essays he hadn’t. There are good reasons for that, but calling it Situations again seems needlessly confusing. Chroniques might have been clearer. 

Finding an essay in English translation can also be a challenge. There are multiple, overlapping but not entirely comprehensive collections of his essays in English. Some essays have been translated more than once; others it seems not at all. 

This page is an attempt to make sense of the first few volumes of the first edition, with links to the useful French Wikipedia articles and Gallimard pages which give details of material in the second editions, and a list of the places where essays are available in English. I’ve not yet included the Seagull thematic volumes, which include many of these pieces. And I’m sure I’ve missed some of the pieces which appeared in journals or other collections. Corrections and additions welcome. As with the other resource pages on this site, this is intended to be a work in progress.