A dangerous liaison
Subtitle: a revelatory new biography of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre
By: Carole Seymour-Jones
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Overlook Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 574
ISBN-13: 9781590202685
Subjects: Feminists; Philosophy; French Authors; Biography; History
Other titles: Biography of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre
Description: Traces the more than fifty-year relationship shared by the writing-philosophy duo, describing it was shaped by evolving modes of thought as well as Sartre's alcoholism, DeBeauvoir's lesbianism, and their controversial political affiliations.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 495-561) and index.
Table of contents: title: The pursuit of happiness 1905-38; title: The dark years 1939-44; title: Écrivains engagés 1945-56; title: False gods 1952-68; title: The farewell ceremony 1969-86.