A dangerous liaison : a revelatory new biography of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre /

Seymour-Jones, Carole.

A dangerous liaison : a revelatory new biography of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre / Revelatory new biography of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre Carole Seymour-Jones. - New York : Overlook Press, 2009. - xvii, 574 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [495]-561) and index.

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.

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Beauvoir, Simone de, 1908-1986.
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980.


Authors, French--20th century--Biography.
Feminists--France--Biography.
Philosophy--History--France--20th century.

B PS 3509 / S521d 2009

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