A dangerous liaison
Subtitle: Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre
By: by Carole Seymour-Jones
Publisher: Century
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 574
ISBN-13: 9781844138227
Subjects: French Women authors; Biography; French Authors; Philosophers; Écrivaines françaises; Biographies; Écrivains français; Philosophes
Description: "From their first meeting in the summer of 1929, Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir shared an intense, passionate, and sometimes painful love-affair that was to last fifty-one tempestuous years. As the creators of existentialism, Sartre and Beauvoir became an inspiration for their generation, the model couple of the counter-culture." "But behind the legend lies a dark story of collusion and betrayal, sexual, social and political. A story which reveals the dangerous side to their philosophy of free love, for the search for authenticity was, in their private lives, a sham. To keep Sartre's love, Beauvoir sacrificed the girls she seduced. Sartre clandestinely compromised with the Nazis and fell into a Soviet honey-trap, his passion for a KGB spy leading him to support a cruel and oppressive Communist regime." "A Dangerous Liaison reveals the full implications of Sartre and Beauvoir's sacrifices and betrayals, using unpublished sources - including recently discovered reports from the Russian archives - to cast new light on the legend that this notorious, brilliant couple created."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1.; title: Pursuit of Happiness 1905-38 -- -- 1.; title: Becoming -- -- 2.; title: Frog Prince -- -- 3.; title: Jacques -- -- 4.; title: La Rochelle -- -- 5.; title: Zaza -- -- 6.; title: Rivals: The Kobra and the Llama -- -- 7.; title: Summer of Love -- -- 8.; title: Month in the Country -- -- 9.; title: 'Morganatic' Marriage -- -- 10.; title: On Her Paris Honeymoon -- -- 11.; title: Marooned in Mud town -- -- 12.; title: Little Russian -- -- 13.; title: Berlin -- -- 14.; title: Bewitched -- -- 15.; title: Trio -- -- 16.; title: Notoriety -- -- 17.; title: Breaking the Rules -- -- 18.; title: In the Shadow of War -- -- Pt. 2.; title: Dark Years 1939-44 -- -- 19.; title: Women in Love -- -- 20.; title: Turn of the Screw -- -- 21.; title: Occupation -- -- 22.; title: Stalag -- -- 23.; title: New Order -- -- 24.; title: Supping with the Devil -- -- 25.; title: Liberation -- -- Pt. 3.; title: Ecrivains Engages 1945-56 -- -- 26.; title: Retribution and Remorse -- -- 27.; title: Dolores -- -- 28.; title: Abyss -- -- 29.; title: Nelson, My Sweet Crocodile -- -- Pt. 4.; title: False Gods 1952-68 -- -- 30.; title: Breaking Point -- -- 31.; title: Body Trouble -- -- 32.; title: My Last Good Friend -- -- 33.; title: Freedom Fighters -- -- 34.; title: Madame Z(artre) -- -- 35.; title: Betrayal -- -- Pt. 5.; title: Farewell Ceremony 1969-86 -- -- 36.; title: Feminist Mother -- -- 37.; title: Abduction of an Old Man -- -- 38.; title: Adieux.