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2022 July: Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir
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I can recommend the short stories by Sartre, especially "The room".
i have The Woman Destroyed by Simone de Beauvoir! i will be reading that
From de Beauvoir, I'll be reading the (nice and short!) A Very Easy Death, but if time permits, I'd also love to read Adieux: A Farewell to Sartre.From Sartre, I'll be reading either The Wall or The Age of Reason.
Bernard wrote: "I can recommend the short stories by Sartre, especially "The room"."I've just noticed that "The Room" is included in The Wall, Bernard, so that makes my mind up - that's what I'll read in July.
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I bought Nausea years ago but never got round to reading it so this gives me an impetus to finally do so. I shall add it after my current short story before I tuck into my next long AND book. It'll also add a tick to three challenges; a translation, the epistolary personal challenge and a French Classic for the bookself bingo.
I’m hoping to read The Second Sex, but this may take me more than the month to get through.
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Rosemarie wrote: "Take your time, Georgina-that's not a book to rush through."I started it this afternoon and already I can see why it needs concentration. Also incredible that this work is over 70 years old, it still seems so relevant to today.
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I started it this afternoon and already I can see why it needs concentration. Also incredible that this work is over ..."
I'm looking forward to your thoughts on this one, Georgina. I'm interested but not sure I can do it within the month. I listened to a sample and agree that it needs much concentration.
Finished The Wall by Jean-Paul Sartre; an excellent collection - I enjoyed all 5 stories, but my favourite was "The Wall".
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I decided to read De Beauvoir back-to-back with Sartre, and read A Very Easy Death, her account of her mother's death from cancer. It's a very short read, only 92 pages, but it makes up for that in intensity and honesty.It feels very truthful - at times maybe brutally truthful, and she does not spare herself either.
Beautifully written, sad but reflective and elegant.
I finished Nausea, I rather enjoyed it. I've collected my thoughts in my review. I'm interested in reading his non-fiction at some stage, but first I must finish reading The Cave and the Light - in which Jean-Paul Sartre and existentialism get no mention!
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The Cave and the Light: Plato Versus Aristotle, and the Struggle for the Soul of Western Civilization (other topics)Nausea (other topics)
The Words: The Autobiography of Jean-Paul Sartre (other topics)
A Very Easy Death (other topics)
The Devil & the Good Lord and Two Other Plays (other topics)
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Both were prolific authors, especially Sartre.
Which books will you be reading?
A good choice for De Beauvoir is the first volume of her autobiography, Memoires d'une Jeune Fille Rangee/Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter. I've read it twice and enjoyed it both times.