The Childhood of a Leader (novella)
The Childhood of a Leader (L'enfance d'un chef) is a short story or novella of slightly over a hundred pages by Jean-Paul Sartre. It is the final story in Sartre's collection that reflects a significant change from nonexistence to existence through chronicling the life of Lucien Fleurier since he was a child until he became an anti-Semitic Camelot who believes that he can become a true leader. The work was published in 1939 with four other short stories in a collection entitled The Wall.