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Article: Books: Writing, whisky, cigarettes and sex Tte--Tte: the lives and loves of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean- Paul Sartre By Hazel Rowley CHATTO pounds 20 pounds 18 (P&P FREE) 08700 798 897
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- The Independent on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- January 8, 2006
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They were the 20th-century Godwin and Wollstonecraft, philosopher
and feminist, united but free. Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de
Beauvoir knew that their relationship was the stuff of legend and
assiduously cultivated the myth. They met as part of a brilliant
group of students at the Ecole Normale and embarked on a love affair
that would last for the rest of their lives. Intellectual equals " in
the highly competitive examination for the philosophy agregation they
passed first and second in their year, out of all the students in
France " they would not be shackled by any formal ties, but would
make their own lives the model for a new kind of partnership between
the sexes, one that would ...
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