num_pages: 608
description: "Salty, frank, and realistic." ― San Francisco Chronicle In her most famous novel, The Mandarins , Simone de Beauvoir takes an unflinching look at Parisian intellectual society at the end of World War II. In fictionally relating the stories of those around her ― Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Arthur Koestler, Nelson Algren ― de Beauvoir dissects the emotional and philosophical currents of her time. At once an engrossing drama and an intriguing political tale, The Mandarins is the emotional odyssey of a woman torn between her inner desires and her public life. "Much more than a roman a clef . . . a moving and engrossing novel." ― New York Times
language: English
title: The Mandarins
titlecomplete: The Mandarins (Norton Paperback Fiction)
genres: Fiction, 20th Century, French Literature, Classics, France, Philosophy, Literary Fiction, Feminism, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 5492
places: Paris
awards: awardedAt: -504892800000
name: Prix Goncourt
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company