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by: Carole Seymour-Jones
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Binding: Hardcover
EAN: 9781844138227
ISBN: 1844138224
Label: Century
Manufacturer: Century
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 574
Publication Date: May 06, 2008
Publisher: Century
Release Date: May 06, 2008
Sales Rank: 1311979
Studio: Century
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This revealing new biography of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre, based in part on recently discovered letters written by de Beauvoir, tells how these two brilliant free-thinkers came to share a relationship that was to last over fifty years.
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Rating: - Gurus with feet of clay
This very readable book is about the relationship between Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, and although the author is of course knowledgeable about their philosophies, her main interest is in the psychology of the pair, which is brought out with great perceptiveness.
From their adolescence onwards they had both rejected belief in God. This had two consequences in particular: the first and earliest was that `if God is dead, everything is permitted', and they certainly allowed ... Read More
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