Jean-Paul Sartre

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...

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...

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...

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...

Her body was returned to Paris for burial at Montparnasse cemetery beside Sartre . Five thousand people walked in her funeral procession.

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...