"In wartime Paris, a group of friends gather to celebrate the end of the German occupation and to plan their future. Ex-Resistance fighter Henri is eager to resume his life while his lover Paula wants to revive their affair. Robert is determined to enter politics while Anne, his psychiatrist wife, is distracted by an affair. An epic romance and a philosophical manifesto, The Mandarins is Simone de Beauvoir's most famous and profound novel and a winner of France's prestigious Prix Goncourt. It is punctuated by wickedly accurate portraits of Sartre, Camus and other intellectual giants of the time."--BOOK JACKET.
About the Author
Simone de Beauvoir was born in Paris in 1908. In 1929 she became the youngest person ever to obtain the agrégation in philosophy at the Sorbonne, placing second to Jean-Paul Sartre. She taught at the lycées at Marseille and Rouen from 1931-1937, and in Paris from 1938-1943. After the war, she emerged as one of the leaders of the existentialist movement, working with Sartre on Les Temps Mordernes. The author of several books including The Mandarins (1957) which was awarded the Prix Goncourt, de Beauvoir was one of the most influential thinkers of her generation. She died in 1986.
Lauren Elkin is the author of several books, including Flâneuse: Women Walk the City, a Radio 4 Book of the Week, a New York Times Notable Book of 2017, and a finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel award for the art of the essay. Her essays on art, literature, and culture have appeared in the London Review of Books, the New York Times, Granta, Harper s, Le Monde, Les Inrockuptibles, and Frieze, among others. She is also an award-winning translator, most recently of Simone de Beauvoir s previously unpublished novel The Inseparables. After twenty years in Paris, she now lives in London.
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