Tete-a-Tete: Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre
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| Rating | : | 4.59 (675 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0060520590 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 432 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-11-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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Through original interviews and access to new primary sources, Rowley portrays them up close, in their most intimate moments.We witness Beauvoir and Sartre with their circle, holding court in Paris cafes. We follow along on their many travels, involving meetings with dignitaries such as Roosevelt, Khrushchev, and Castro. We can't think of one without thinking of the other. They are one of the world's legendary couples. We learn the details of their infamous romantic entanglements with the young Olga Kosakiewicz and others; of their efforts to protest the wars in Algeria and Vietnam; and of Beauvoir's tempestuous love affair with Nelson Algren. Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre -- those passionate, freethinking existentialist philosopher-writers
Rich Productive Lives, or Serial Middle age Sexual Debauchery? It is a given that Mme Simone de Beauvoir and Jean Paul Sartre lived full rich productive lives according to their own existential philosophy and according to their own (to use their words) "temporary moral codes." Thus, this book begs an interesting question: Why waste Rich Productive Lives, or Serial Middle age Sexual Debauchery? Herbert L Calhoun It is a given that Mme Simone de Beauvoir and Jean Paul Sartre lived full rich productive lives according to their own existential philosophy and according to their own (to use their words) "temporary moral codes." Thus, this book begs an interesting question: Why waste 400 pages recounting and putting all of the emphasis on the voyeuristic details of their six-decades of sexual encounters? After about four chapters of middle (and old) age sexual debauchery, treachery, double (and triple)-crosses -- all interspersed between a lot of hiking, driving. 00 pages recounting and putting all of the emphasis on the voyeuristic details of their six-decades of sexual encounters? After about four chapters of middle (and old) age sexual debauchery, treachery, double (and triple)-crosses -- all interspersed between a lot of hiking, driving. Tete a Tete - Sartre and de Beauvoir ZsaZsa Mon Dieu! What a decadent meeting of razor sharp minds - who were not totally lacking in compassion, but whose narcissism was ad nauseum to a more naive American.. "Corps au corps" according to chicondor. This book is a factual chronology of the relationship between Beauvoir and Sartre, particularly as it relates to their extracurricular sexual relations. It is not an in-depth commentary or analysis on how they influenced each other's thinking and writings. I found this aspect of the book disappointing.Attention should have been paid to how Sartre's way of life runs counter to his existential philosophy- freedom in action is paramount to JPS's existential man and yet he succumbs to addictions to drugs and alcohol in his mid-to-later life. Why does B
Without undue prurience, Rowley (Richard Wright) romps through the major entanglements, loves, triangles, friendships and affairs engaged in by the authors of, respectively,the seminal feminist work The Second Sex andthe controversial autobiography Words. . All rights reserved. Though Beauvoir is the heroine of the book, Rowley offers revealing insights into Sartre: including the extent to which he juggled, depended upon and supported his many mistresses and the compulsive need he had to seduce women far more beautiful than he, despite his tepid sensuality. From Publishers Weekly Though Rowley identifies h