The Mandarins by Simone De Beauvoir
A Harper Perennial Modern Classics reissue of this unflinching examination of post-war French intellectual life, and an amazing chronicle of love, philosophy and politics from one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century.‘A remarkable novel’ Iris Murdoch, Sunday Times
‘A dazzling panorama of the giants of the Left Bank.’ New Statesman
‘The characters, especially the women, are uninhibited and sometimes predatory. The dialogues are salty, frank and realistic. The characters’ amorous adventures are set down with microscopic exactitude.’ Guardian
‘There are few, a very few, novels from which one comes away with the feeling of having travelled, experienced, learned… such a book is The Mandarins.’ Bookman
Simon de Beauvoir was born in Paris in 1908. A close friend of the writer and philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, and well-known as a leader of the Existentialist movement in Paris. Her famous feminist work, The Second Sex, was hailed as a landmark study of women, and her novels, including The Woman Destroyed and She Came to Stay, have become well-loved classics. She died in 1968.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780007203949 |
| ISBN 10 | 0007203942 |
| Title | The Mandarins |
| Author | Simone De Beauvoir |
| Series | Harper Perennial Modern Classics |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Year published | 2005-05-03 |
| Number of pages | 752 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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