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The Mandarins
The Mandarins
Author: Simone de Beauvoir
In her most famous novel, The Mandarins, Simone de Beauvoir takes an unflinching look at Parisian intellectual society at the end of World War II. In fictionally relating the stories of those around her --Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Arthur Koestler, Nelson Algren --de Beauvoir dissects the emotional and philosophical currents of her time. At...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780393318838
ISBN-10: 0393318834
Publication Date: 7/1/1999
Pages: 610
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Publisher: W. W. Norton Company
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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This is a novel with two distinct locales: Paris and Chicago. Unless you are really up on your post-war Existentialists their endless discussions can get a little tiresome and you may want a key to know exactly who de Bouvoir is actually writing about(e.g. which character is Camus?) The parts set in Chicago and the account of her affair with Nelson Algren are not to be missed.


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