works by Jean-Paul Sartre. Jean-Paul Sartre represents the figure of the the figure of the committed writer, and has himself written a lot about what it means to be what it means to be “engaged”.
For example, you can read his book Situations II, in which he writes:
“I will say that a writer is engaged when he tries to take the most lucid and the most complete consciousness to be embarked, that is to say when he makes a pass for him and for the others the engagement of the immediate spontaneity to the reflected, “Jean-Paul Sartre, Situations II