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Hazel Rowley10 Jan 2006
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On her new book about Simone de Beauvoir's relationship with Jean-Paul Sartre

In her classic feminist manifesto, The Second Sex, written in 1949, Simone de Beauvoir wrote a chapter on what happens to women when they fall in love. Everything, suddenly, revolves around the new man in her life - they abandon own judgement, even their entire life - to him. 

Beauvoir’s own relationship with Jean-Paul Sartre was, famously, an unconventional one. So what was the relationship between the writings of this prolific couple, and their real lives?

Tete-a-Tete: The Lives and Loves of Simone De Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre by Hazel Rowley, published byChatto and Windus, ISBN:0701175087

Wikipedia - Simone de Beauvoir


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