by HazelRowley (Author)
They are one of the world's legendary couples. Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre - those passionate, free-thinking Existentialist philosopher-writers - had a committed but notoriously open union that generated no end of controversy. Through original interviews and access to new primary sources, Hazel Rowley portrays them up close: their romantic entanglements, their Parisian cafe society circle, their discussions of each other's work. Theirs is a great story - and a great story is precisely what they most wanted their lives to be.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 464
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 04 Jan 2007
ISBN 10: 0099455544
ISBN 13: 9780099455547
Book Overview: A highly readable dual biography, this is the first book to concentrate exclusively on the relationship between Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir and draws on revelatory letters and diaries previously unseen, as well as on the testimony of people who have not wanted to give interviews before.