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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. As the previous reviewer writes, Rowley doesn't shy away from demonstrating the ugly sides in Sartre and De Beauvoir's characters but she also shows us why they were such iconic figures of the 20th century. It reads more like a story than a biography - which is what a good biography should do!
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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This book must have taken a long time to research and write because it seems to detail almost everything Sartre did. And he did a lot! Like most geniuses he was a workaholic, a serial womaniser, a drunk (at times) and a chain smoker ('I noticed my pipe was empty and as I paused to refill it with my favourite tobacco I wondered about the nature of my existence and freedom; if indeed freedom is something that can be subjected to wonder' is a typical line from a Sartre novel).
Sartre and the 'Beaver' had a great life, forever travelling, surrounded by friends and lovers, holidaying in Rome, Venice, Nice - just 'parfait'.
Tete a tete will reveal how Sartre, a small, ugly man, seduced beautiful women using his charm, genius and latterly his fame. He owned nothing and spent all his considerable earnings on his friends and his string of kept women.
The book reveals a slightly nasty side of JPS, particulary in his falling out with Albert Camus, and he was a liar and cheat with his lovers, but then that is true of most of us. The book doesn't get too much into existentialism, nihilism, atheism or free will but instead chronicles the lives of these two great thinkers and writers.
It is quite fascinating and a glimpse into a different time: pre and post war, a time before television and the internet. A more human, personal world. An intellectual's world.
I really enjoyed it.
JP :0)
Sartre and the 'Beaver' had a great life, forever travelling, surrounded by friends and lovers, holidaying in Rome, Venice, Nice - just 'parfait'.
Tete a tete will reveal how Sartre, a small, ugly man, seduced beautiful women using his charm, genius and latterly his fame. He owned nothing and spent all his considerable earnings on his friends and his string of kept women.
The book reveals a slightly nasty side of JPS, particulary in his falling out with Albert Camus, and he was a liar and cheat with his lovers, but then that is true of most of us. The book doesn't get too much into existentialism, nihilism, atheism or free will but instead chronicles the lives of these two great thinkers and writers.
It is quite fascinating and a glimpse into a different time: pre and post war, a time before television and the internet. A more human, personal world. An intellectual's world.
I really enjoyed it.
JP :0)
15 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This biography of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre's legendary relationship is pacey and well written and a must-read for anyone interested in Beauvoir and/or Sartre and their times. After reading a biography on de Beauvoir years ago, I'd thought that their interpretation of their relationship a bit suspect - while de Beauvoir kept going on about how they had no formal ties to one another and they were both free to take other lovers, her behaviour and his emotional demands on her didn't seem that different from a put-upon housewife. She seemed to be giving the emotional support while he chased pretty girls yet this was not reciprocated - her passionate affair with the writer Nelson Algren was almost certainly undermined by Sartre's jealous behaviour.
I was afraid this book would simply regurgitate the party line about them but luckily Rowley isn't in awe of her subjects. She certainly doesn't shy away from showing their hypocrisy - while they vowed to tell each other the truth about everything, they consistently lied to everyone else, including quite impressionable young women that they came in contact with through their teaching - and the often terrible consequences of their lies. Many a time I wanted to throw this book across the room, not because of the writing, but because of de Beauvoir and Sartre's appalling - and arrogant - behaviour. A great book about a pair of phoneys.
I was afraid this book would simply regurgitate the party line about them but luckily Rowley isn't in awe of her subjects. She certainly doesn't shy away from showing their hypocrisy - while they vowed to tell each other the truth about everything, they consistently lied to everyone else, including quite impressionable young women that they came in contact with through their teaching - and the often terrible consequences of their lies. Many a time I wanted to throw this book across the room, not because of the writing, but because of de Beauvoir and Sartre's appalling - and arrogant - behaviour. A great book about a pair of phoneys.
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A vivid insight into Paris and its intellectuals
What I loved most about this book was it made me long to be in Paris at the time of Sartre and Beauvoir. Read more
Published 2 months ago by emma
La Vie Boheme
A very readable and well written if slightly gossipy account of the lives and loves of Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Kate Hopkins
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