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,
“... There will be many who will find it significant that Anne Whitmarsh, beginning a careful and detailed study of Simone de Beauvoir 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 ... ”
