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Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre formed one of the most famous literary couples of the twentieth century. Their relationship took on the quality of legend and served as a model of openness and honesty for countless men and women. Sartre was revered during his lifetime as a paradigm of the modern philosophe and intellectual, but since de Beauvoir’s death in 1986, her literary reputation has threatened to eclipse Sartre’s. Her work The Second Sex is, by any standard, one of the most important and influential books of the twentieth century.�
When these private and revealing letters were published in France in 1990, they caused a storm of controversy. Here de Beauvoir tells Sartre everything, tracing the extraordinary complications of their triangular love life. These letters reveal de Beauvoir not only as manipulative and dependent, but also as vulnerable, passionate, jealous, and committed. This reissue of a New York Times Notable Book will inspire philosophers, writers, and lovers of literature for decades to come.
- Sales Rank: #580628 in Books
- Published on: 2012-06-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x 6.00" w x 6.00" l, 1.60 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 544 pages
About the Author
Simone de Beauvoir is the author of The Second Sex and the winner of the Prix Goncourt, France's highest honor, for The Mandarins.
Quintin Hoare is the director of the Bosnian Institute and has translated numerous works by Sartre, Antonio Gramsci, and other French authors. He lives in the United Kingdom.
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DE BEAUVOIR’S CONTROVERSIAL (BUT FASCINATING!) LETTERS TO HER LIFELONG COMPANION
By Steven H Propp
Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir (1908-1986), was a French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist and social theorist, who was closely associated with Jean-Paul Sartre and Existentialism. She wrote many books, such as The Second Sex, The Mandarins , She Came to Stay, The Woman Destroyed, The Ethics Of Ambiguity, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter); The Prime of Life; Force of Circumstance); All Said and Done, Adieux: A Farewell to Sartre, Wartime Diary, etc.
These letters were published posthumously in 1990. The editor wrote in his Introduction, “the publication of her correspondence… demonstrated the radical incompatibility of her and Sartre’s whole conception of free human relations… with the somewhat rose-tinted, soft-edged public image she had herself at times helped to create… What provoked the outraged reaction of so many to the posthumous publication of these letters? At least three strands converged here. First, traditional sexism… Secondly… ideological Reaction: the posturing of intellectual yuppiedom… More significant was a third strand made up of former of still-would-be sympathizers, who now felt De Beauvoir had revealed herself in her letters to be dismayingly OTHER than the idealized image of her they had so long been nurturing…De Beauvoir’s letters to Sartre … are love letters … and they are concurrently the unsparing account of those other---‘contingent’---loves allowed for in her pact with Sartre… De Beauvoir herself is a validly heroic figure… [who] produced a work which stands and will stand as the baseline of all aspirations for equality between the sexes in the modern world.” (Pg. vii-ix)
In September 1939, she wrote, “My love, DO ANSWER what I say in my letters. I want to talk to you. I do so long for something solid and hard to hold on to---do speak to me.” (Pg. 79)
She comments in December 1939 on the writing of ‘She Came to Stay’: “The new version of Chap. 3 is finished; there’s a somewhat philosophical conversation between Pierre and Francoise, but I think it’s indispensable. That makes 60 pages of the novel that are in final draft form (subject to your judgment)---it’s proving terribly quick to rework, and enjoyable too. I’m hoping by the end of February to have gone over all last year’s work. And there are another 300 pages drafted, which will only need putting into final form.” (Pg. 234)
In March 1940, she wrote, “I’ve read a bit more of [Kierkegaard’s] ‘Fear and Trembling’: it’s badly constructed and long-winded, but that fellow did realize what an existential ethics was---and you can already sense there what Kafka owes to him. I’ll read the other one too, since he interests me more then I expected.” (Pg. 304)
In July 1940, she explains, “I walked to the Nationale, and that was when I began to decipher Hegel’s Phenomenology---with the help of Wahl’s book and some English commentators. But it’s discouraging, since each of them makes clear at length how he understands nothing. I found it agreeable to be back there---it reminded me of the time long ago when I was preparing for my aggregation. Also, it restored my equanimity to rediscover philosophy and books---all those things which are truly real, and so solid and which we’ll never be without.” (Pg. 326)
In July 1940, she wrote, “it’s an absurdity to speak of one epoch being more comfortable and agreeable to live in than another, from the standpoint of the mind. Everything obviously depends upon what you expect of the mind---what you want and hope from it… And the combined influences of Hegel and events have caused me to adopt from within… this attitude, not too far away from Spinozism, that always used to be so alien to me. It’s far more accessible and obvious through Hegel, of course, than through Spinoza. Thus I’m living not exactly cocooned in philosophical optimism---for my ideas aren’t clear enough---but at least on a philosophical plane such that optimism is possible. I so wish we could make a comparison between your ideas on nothingness, the in-itself, and the for-itself, and the ideas of Hegel. For there are many analogies---although Hegel turns into joy that which for you is instead gloomy despairing. It seems to me that both are true, and I’d like to find a point of equilibrium.” (Pg. 335-336)
In January 1941 she stated, “I’m dying to do some real philosophy---there’s heaps of stuff I’ve now assimilated---but by God! how I long for some solid discussions! How I yearn to talk to you! If I were condemned for long never to talk, I’d end up WRITING philosophy, from the need to express myself. I got down to Hegel again with my pupils this morning, and I find him interesting, even though I’ve become a bit repelled by his system.” (Pg. 369)
In February 1947 she said, “[Richard] Wright’s wife told me how stressful an American woman’s life it. I was so delighted: on Sunday morning, that angel Richard Wright’s going to take me to a Gospel Church in Harlem---apparently it’s astounding. I’m also going with his recommendation to see the authors of ‘Black Antiquities’ in Chicago. He has taken charge of my interests in a fantastically kind way.” (Pg. 421)
Those looking for philosophical sophistication in these letters will mostly go away disappointed; but for those wanting insight into De Beauvoir’s mind and personality, and for details of her relationship with Sartre---as well as with various other lovers (female and male)---this collection will be a “page-turner.”
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
It really gives her voice....
By Barry D. Mcgrath
I have read a number of books about Sartre and deBeauvoir but this book really gives a living sense of what it was like to talk to her.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
wanted French; settled for English translation
By Amazon Customer
Time and again I am told that such and such a book is not available in my country ... but it is listed in the available e-books.
This is really quite vexing in general : we will have to wait until the National Library in France make unexpurgated letters available and for the Sartre estate to pass out of the hands of Elkaim-Sartre.
In the case of Lettres au Castor, all of 1933 and 1934 is "missing" according to the estates. Do not be surprised if they are available to the next generation to assess Sartre in Nazi Berlin !
A must read : "A Very Comfortable Occupation" on J-P S and S de B.'s careers advancements in occupied Paris. What a pair !
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