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...authors of these so-called-classics include Simone de Beauvoir, Mary Wollencraft, Kate Millet and others of similar stature...
...controversial contemporary philosopher and the woman who was to become its most controversial feminist met the professional criminal who was to become its most controversial playwright. "The conversation was most agreeable," said Jean-Paul Sartre. Last week, nearly six years after Sartre's death, his longtime companion Simone de Beauvoir, 78, died of a lung ailment. The next day Jean Genet, 75, succumbed to throat ! cancer. Said Premier Jacques Chirac, inarguably...
...trio of soloists. De Beauvoir epitomized the French bourgeoisie. Her father was a lawyer and a non-believer, but her mother insisted on a stern Roman Catholic education. It did not have the desired effect. At twelve the child decided, "I no longer believe in God," and resolved to study philosophy at the Sorbonne...
...Beauvoir was 21 and Sartre 23 when the fellow philosophy students met and began arguing (they both planned to become teachers). "It was the first time in my life that I had felt intellectually inferior to anyone else," De Beauvoir recalled in her five-volume memoirs. Sartre halfheartedly proposed marriage, but instead they worked out a deal: complete equality between them, complete freedom to have affairs with others, complete honesty about everything. And so, without ever actually sharing an apartment, they lived together for the rest of their lives, always addressing each other with the formal "vous...
...then Sartre was famous as the leading exponent of the creed known as existentialism (Being and Nothingness, 1943) and the chief guru to the postwar denizens of St. Germain des Pres. De Beauvoir was not far behind. She won the prestigious Prix Goncourt for her fourth novel, The Mandarins, an astringent survey of the Paris literary life as well as a memoir of her own affair with ^ Chicago Novelist Nelson Algren. More enduring fame came from her monumental manifesto The Second Sex (1949), one of the cornerstones of modern feminism...