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Each evening they stroll through the streets of Rome, she holding fondly on to his arm. Then Author Simone de Beauvoir, 70, and Philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, 73, sit and sip aperitifs at an outdoor cafe and dine in their favorite restaurants in the Piazza Navona. The Parisian couple's mutual devotion during 49 years of intimacy is nearly matched by their attachment to Rome-where they have spent part of every summer for the past 25 years. "We have no work plans at all right now," says Beauvoir. "We're just enjoying our vacation." As a friend...
...Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia, he writes heavily in protest of the continual censorship of non-leftist artists by these "petit bourgeois leftist intellectuals who think they are revolutionaries." (He has also called them "Nazi intellectuals from the Sixteenth Arondissement," the wealthiest section of Paris where Sartre, Barthes, Simone de Beauvoir, Godard, Duras and others live.) In his book, Present Past, Past Present (1971) he notes: "We (in France) have a liberal press and a censorship by a literally authoritative opposition"--an opposition which until a few years ago was exemplified by the overwhelming majority of French publishing houses under intolerant...
SIMONE de BEAUVOIR...
...method is the close--sometimes too close--analysis of prose texts of some 50 female authors. Her critical eye scans the writings of women ranging in talent from Ellen Glasgow to Virginia Woolf, in commitment from diarist Arvazine Cooper to Simone de Beauvoir, and in vision from the inventor of Ma Kettle to the creator of Martha Quest...
With his socialist books no longer banned in Portugal, French Philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, 69, felt encouraged enough to take a firsthand reading of the Portuguese revolution. During a 15-day visit to the country with his longtime friend, Author Simone de Beauvoir, 67, Sartre chatted with writers and students, toured a factory and dined in Lisbon's Red Barracks Canteen with the Light Artillery Regiment, most radical of Portugal's revolutionary forces. Despite his antimilitarism, Sartre seemed thoroughly reconciled to the Portuguese army, which, he said, "is not like any other" since it represents all classes...