De Beauvoir and Sartre

Author: Walter van der Loozem
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Publication Date: 2000-03-01
Features: Two completely different bodies, two pools of tense, different passions, two extremely capable intellectuals. They combined as a pair, struggling and striving, becoming representatives of existentialism and former feminism, surviving in people's memories as exemplary self-inventions. But until Sartre's death, they were first and foremost a couple, a pair of high intellectuals among the intellectuals. In November 1929, the beautiful but hoarse-voiced Simone de Beauvoir, the daughter of a declining family and a female university student in distress, met Jean-Paul Sartre, who was 24 years old, 158 cm tall, severely cross-eyed, but sharp, humorous, and open-minded. At that time, the future of both was not optimistic; whether she didn't want to be a woman of her social status or he declared himself exempt from his environment, he had long decided to "save himself alone." Two completely different bodies, two pools of tense, different passions, two extremely capable intellectuals. They combined as a pair, struggling and striving, becoming representatives of existentialism and former feminism, surviving in people's memories as exemplary self-inventions. But until Sartre's death, they were first and foremost a couple, a pair of high intellectuals among the intellectuals.