Word: beauvoirs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...latest novel by 47-year-old Simone de Beauvoir, Les Mandarins, is now the sensation of Paris (an earlier De Beauvoir novel has just appeared in the U.S.-TIME, Feb. 7). In December Les Mandarins (roughly, The Intellectuals) won France's fattest literary prize, the Goncourt. Novelist Albert Camus and Author de Beauvoir's great and good friend, Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre, are thinly disguised principals. "These new Platos," one critic wrote, "talk slang like street cleaners, express themselves as sewer diggers no longer express themselves...
...MORTAL (345 pp.)-Simone de Beauvoir-World...
Novelist de Beauvoir's Count Fosca is immortal-the result of downing a beaker of the elixir of life distilled by an Egyptian alchemist. So when he meets ravishing Regina, a 20th century French actress, Fosca is 700 years old (he still looks thirtyish) and is thoroughly fed up with life...
Life Is Death. Mortal man's proud answers to Fosca are put in his mouth by France's Jean-Paul Sartre: Existentialist Simone de Beauvoir is merely the medium. All good existentialists believe that when they die, they will die altogether: but they argue that precisely because man has no God to look after him, no Heaven to look forward to and no way of escaping death, he is so much the greater, because his hope and courage light the absurd void to which he is condemned. Mortal man, in fact, is forever alive, whereas immortal Count Fosca...
Kluckhohn compared the Kinsey reports, a forthcoming study of British sexual behavior, and Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex, which presents a French attitude toward sex, as products of their respective national cultures. Kinsey's work, he said, is so clearly a manifestation of a basic tradition in American culture that it "parodies and caricatures" this tradition...