 Although we have not given much attention to Sartre’s literary and artistic productions since  section 3  above, he continued to produce artistic work of political significance throughout his career. Continuous with insights from his What is Literature?, Sartre argues that in a society that remains unjust and dominated by oppression, the prose-writer (if not the poet) must combat this violence by jolting the reader and audience from their complacency, rather than simply be concerned with art for its own sake. His literary works hence are typically both philosophical and political. Although the number of these works diminished over time, there is still a powerful literary exploration of the philosophical and political themes of the Critique in the play, The Condemned of Altona (1960).