The earth had need of me
Joanna Biggs: A nice girl like Simone, 16 April 2020
Becoming Beauvoir: A Life
by Kate Kirkpatrick.
Bloomsbury, 476 pp., £20, August 2019,978 1 350 04717 4 Show More
by Kate Kirkpatrick.
Bloomsbury, 476 pp., £20, August 2019,
Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir and Me, a Memoir
by Deirdre Bair.
Atlantic, 347 pp., £18.99, February 2020,978 1 78649 265 4 Show More
by Deirdre Bair.
Atlantic, 347 pp., £18.99, February 2020,
Diary of a Philosophy Student, Vol. II: 1928-29
by Simone de Beauvoir, translated by Barbara Klaw.
Illinois, 374 pp., £40, June 2019,978 0 252 04254 6 Show More
by Simone de Beauvoir, translated by Barbara Klaw.
Illinois, 374 pp., £40, June 2019,
“... bombs on students ‘returning home at night in evening dress’), was the ‘little band’ of Paul Nizan, René Maheu and Jean-Paul Sartre. Sartre was rumoured to be ‘the worst of the lot’.Beauvoir was preparing for her exams, full of love for Zaza, constantly addressing herself in her diary to the absent Jacques ... ”