After the end of the war, in 1945, he returned to Paris, and worked as a writer and as a senior editor at the Calmann-Lévy publishing house.
Manès Sperber is the author of a novel trilogy: Like a Tear in the Ocean: A Trilogy, (1949-1955); of an autobiographical trilogy: All our Yesterdays (1974-1997), and numerous essays on philosophy, politics, literature, and psychology.