Letters To Sartre
  • Published: 2 November 1993
  • ISBN: 9780099914907
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 544
  • RRP: $45.00

Letters To Sartre

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An irresistible invitation to get inside one of the 20th century’s most infamous, and most fascinating, relationships.

In 1983 de Beauvoir published Sartre's letters, maintaining that her own to him had been lost. They were found by de Beauvoir's adopted daughter, and published to a storm of controversy in France. Tracing the emotional and triangular complications of her life with Sartre, the letters reveal her not only as manipulative and dependent but Simonealso as vulnerable, passionate, jealous and committed.
  • Published: 2 November 1993
  • ISBN: 9780099914907
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 544
  • RRP: $45.00
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About the author

Simone de Beauvoir

Simone de Beauvoir was born in Paris in 1908. In 1929 she became the youngest person ever to obtain the agrégation in philosophy at the Sorbonne, placing second to Jean-Paul Sartre. She taught at the lycées at Marseille and Rouen from 1931–1937, and in Paris from 1938–1943. After the war, she emerged as one of the leaders of the existentialist movement, working with Sartre on Les Temps Mordernes. The author of several books including The Mandarins (1957) which was awarded the Prix Goncourt, de Beauvoir was one of the most influential thinkers of her generation. She died in 1986.

Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier have lived in Paris for over forty years and are both graduates of Rutgers University, New Jersey. Borde was on the faculty of the Institut d'Etudes Politiques and has been chair and vice-chair of American Democrats Abroad. Malovany-Chevallier was a full- time faculty member at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques and continues to teach American literature. They have been translating books and articles on social science, art and feminist literature for twenty-five years and have jointly authored numerous books in French on subjects ranging from grammar to politics to American cooking.

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The Second Sex (Vintage Feminism Short Edition)
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Praise for Letters To Sartre

There is more than a whiff of Les Liaisons Dangereuses about these pages

Spectator

This is a vivid piece of unexpurgated social history, and an opportunity to hear a vigorous and innovative thinker...speaking in her abrasive, touching, breathtakingly candid private voice

Sunday Times

Wonderful… what really shines through is de Beauvoir’s simultaneously maintained autonomy and symbiotic relationship with Sartre, her "beloved little one", along with their total commitment to a life spent in pursuit of ideals, together

Irish Times

There is more than a whiff of Les Liaisons Dangereuses about these pages

Spectator

This is a vivid piece of unexpurgated social history, and an opportunity to hear a vigorous and innovative thinker...speaking in her abrasive, touching, breathtakingly candid private voice

Sunday Times