Jean-Paul Sartre

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...

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

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...

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...

Sartre believed it to be the best thing she had ever written.

In shaping her thought, her father 's influence was primary. Later influences on her thinking and therefore also in her novels were provided by Dostoevsky in particular, by existentialist philosophy as embodied in Sartre ...

In Paris on a press pass shortly after the liberation of France, AWE met with Jean-Paul Sartre to express her admiration for his play Les mouches.

SB met Jean-Paul Sartre while both were preparing to write agrégation exams at the Sorbonne in Paris.

Jean-Paul Sartre , French philosopher, novelist, dramatist, critic, and SB 's lifelong partner, died in Paris.

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. The first member of the group...

Though KKD 's father, Abanimohan Kushari , studied economics at the University of Dacca (now Dhaka) and worked as a civil servant, his true love was literature. He taught himself to speak French and German...

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...

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...

Sent to a private school, the deeply Catholic Adeline Désir Institute , at five and a half, SB was ecstatic. The idea of entering upon a life of my own intoxicated me, and...