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Jean-Paul Sartre
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Standard Name: Sartre, Jean-Paul
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Simone de Beauvoir | SB
's account of her childhood is warm, funny, and delightful. During her adolescence she chose the path of the intellectual, and life became a struggle, which this book records in painful detail. The story... |
Textual Features | Simone de Beauvoir | This book faces up to plenty of disagreeable facts: in personal life the onset of ageing, in political life the long-drawn pain of France's colonial war in Algeria. A recurrent topic is the way... |
Literary responses | Simone de Beauvoir | Sartre
believed it to be the best thing she had ever written. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Simone de Beauvoir | SB
handles the topic of Sartre
's decline, both physical and mental, in her usual clear-eyed, unsparing though not unfeeling style. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Simone de Beauvoir | |
Textual Production | Simone de Beauvoir | In 1983 SB
edited the letters written to her by Sartre
between 1926 and 1963. Not until after her death (and several years after that of Sartre) did the letters which she had written to... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Simone de Beauvoir | Jean-Paul Sartre
, French philosopher, novelist, dramatist, critic, and SB
's lifelong partner, died in Paris. Brosman, Catharine Savage. Simone de Beauvoir Revisited. Twayne. 27 |
Literary responses | Simone de Beauvoir | The one-hundredth anniversary of SB
's birth, though marked with book publications, a tribute DVD series, and a three-day international symposium, was a controversial occasion. Sharp criticism in the French press centred mostly the... |
Textual Production | Simone de Beauvoir | Jean-Paul Sartre
and SB
launched a left-wing periodical, Les temps modernes (Modern Times), which became the premier intellectual journal in France (and which was also widely read elsewhere). Brosman, Catharine Savage. Simone de Beauvoir Revisited. Twayne. 20-21 “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
Textual Production | Simone de Beauvoir | Despite the implication of finality in her previous book of memoirs, her partner's death drew from SB
, the following year, one more book of reminiscence: Le cérémonie des adieux: Suivi de entretiens avec Jean-Paul Sartre. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
Education | Simone de Beauvoir | Sent to a private school, the deeply Catholic Adeline Désir Institute
, Beauvoir, Simone de. Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter. Translator Kirkup, James, Penguin. 67 Beauvoir, Simone de. Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter. Translator Kirkup, James, Penguin. 21 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Simone de Beauvoir | SB
's early perception of Jean-Paul Sartre
was as the centre of a little band of scoffers and moral daredevils, which she felt sure she could never penetrate. Beauvoir, Simone de. Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter. Translator Kirkup, James, Penguin. 309 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Simone de Beauvoir | Her relationship with Sartre
was not all smooth. It became a three-way relationship, against de Beauvoir's will, when he invited into their shared life a younger woman, Olga Kosakiewicz
. SB
for her part had... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Simone de Beauvoir | During her time in the USA, SB
embarked on a love-affair with Chicago writer Nelson Algren
. They continued to correspond after her return to France, and in 1998 selections from this correspondence were published... |
politics | Simone de Beauvoir | SB
's political activities included steady opposition to France's colonial war in Algeria, and lifelong support for socialism and feminism. Elaine Showalter
has written that SB
's feminist credentials stem from her writing, and... |
Timeline
1925: The Black US singer Josephine Baker, aged...
Building item
1925
The Black US singer Josephine Baker
, aged nineteen, met with phenomenal success in Paris; she was seen as exemplifying the Jazz Age on one hand and a new racial consciousness on the other.
December 1964: Jean-Paul Sartre was awarded the Nobel Prize...
Writing climate item
December 1964
Jean-Paul Sartre
was awarded the Nobel
Prize in Literature but declined to accept it for personal and ideological reasons: the only person ever to do so.
June 1966: Anthropologist Mary Douglas published her...
Women writers item
June 1966
AnthropologistMary Douglas
published her best-known work, Purity and Danger, a study of ritual behaviour and taboo.
1970: The Oxford philosopher Mary Warnock published...
Women writers item
1970
The Oxford
philosopher Mary Warnock
published Existentialism a study which traces the common interests of a number of philosophers including Sartre
, Kierkegaard
, Nietzsche
, Husserl
, and Merleau-Ponty
.
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