Jean-Paul Sartre

During her six years with the Montreal Standard, MG wrote about economic, cultural, political, and social issues, including interviewing post-war refugees, reporting on Jean-Paul Sartre 's visit to the city in 1946, and exploring...

After the rejection of her fourth novel, BM turned her attention to short stories for John O'London's Weekly and other magazines. She was fascinated by an article by Sartre on the work of Francis Ponge

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...

Its subject is the relationship between a daughter and the mother (who conceived and bore her outside marriage, without the cushion of financial security), and about their struggles to survive. Tales of the mother's own...

L'invitée describes an established love-relationship reeling from the introduction of a third party: it is based on the period during which SB shared her life with Sartre with a former student of his. In fiction...

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...

Desmond MacCarthy had launched Life and Letters in June 1928; it issued its last number this month, and Bryher's new publication first appeared in September. It merged it with the London Mercury after May 1939...

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).

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.

IM published Sartre : Romantic Rationalist, a philosophical monograph: her first book, and the earliest by anyone on Sartre's work, dedicated to her mother and father .

This volume's epigraph comes from a play by Sartre : in English half victims, half accomplices, like everyone else.

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...

Her notice of Sartre in the Seventies, 1978 (a volume by Jean-Paul Sartre himself), concludes with a characteristic blend of seriousness and wit by saluting a brave, honest, profound, if intellectually pig-headed thinker and...

SB handles the topic of Sartre 's decline, both physical and mental, in her usual clear-eyed, unsparing though not unfeeling style.

For Meanjin she wrote about the current falling-out in Paris between Camus (who had taken an anti-Stalinist line in L'Homme révolté) and Sartre . For Stead neither writer was a good enough Communist...