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...satisfies the means?" he demanded. "Is this possible? But what will justify the ends?" Sartre raged against him, and their quarrel reverberated through those intent Left Bank circles whose proud boast is that they dispute only about essentials. Sartre's onetime great and good friend, Simone de Beauvoir, cruelly lampooned Camus' life and loves in her novel The Mandarins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Rebel | 1/18/1960 | See Source »

MEMOIRS OF A DUTIFUL DAUGHTER, by Simone de Beauvoir. France's existentialist termagant. Jean Paul Sartre's first lady of the Left Bank cafés, is at least as candid as she is philosophically stubborn. Her memoirs of girlhood owe most of their charm to the surprising fact that her origins were Catholic, her upbringing puritan. She describes all this with considerable grace, ends with a conversion to Sartre's atheism which seems from her own testimony to be just another straitjacket, but one she can wear with arrogance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: The YEAR'S BEST | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter, by Simone de Beauvoir. Intellectual reminiscences of the days when the future queen of existentialism was only a restless student princess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Aug. 17, 1959 | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter, by Simone de Beauvoir. Intellectual reminiscences of the days when the future queen of existentialism was only a restless student princess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: On Broadway, Aug. 10, 1959 | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter, by Simone de Beauvoir. An all-but-Proustian remembrance of things past, when the future queen of existentialism was a proper, fretful and insomniac student princess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Jul. 13, 1959 | 7/13/1959 | See Source »

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