La Grande Sartreuse
Douglas Johnson, 15 October 1981
Simone de Beauvoir and the Limits of Commitment
by Anne Whitmarsh.
Cambridge, 212 pp., £14.50, June 1981,9780521236690 Show More
by Anne Whitmarsh.
Cambridge, 212 pp., £14.50, June 1981,
The Intellectual Resistance in Europe
by James Wilkinson.
Harvard, 358 pp., £14, July 1981,0 674 45775 7 Show More
by James Wilkinson.
Harvard, 358 pp., £14, July 1981,
“... with a section called ‘Biographical Notes’, should make the first entry read, ‘1905 21 June: Jean-Paul Sartre born in Paris’, and the last: ‘1980: Death of Sartre’. There are those for whom Simone de Beauvoir is important only because of her association with Sartre. Her four volumes of autobiography are sometimes seen merely as useful source ... ”