Quiet Moments in a War by Simone De Beauvoir

Quiet Moments in a War by Simone De Beauvoir

In the companion volume to the acclaimed Witness of my Life, Jean-Paul Sartre reveals his life as a soldier, a German prisoner, and a man of Resistance through letters between himself and his "beloved Beaver," Simone de Beauvoir.

Quiet Moments in a War tells the story of Jean-Paul Sartre at the peak of his powers and renown through the exchanging of ideas and intimacies with Simone de Beauvoir from 1940 to 1963. In the pages of this book, readers will find details on Sartre's war and his path to fame with the publication of his major works.

From September 1939 to June 1940, Sartre wrote Beauvoir almost daily as he waited from the frontlines for a German attack. While it was a time of fear and uncertainty, it doubled as a time of great productivity for Sartre as he completed the novel The Age of Reason and sketched out Being and Nothingness.

This collection of the letters between Sartre and Beauvoir completes the extraordinary correspondence of one of modern history's most celebrated couples while documenting the emergence of a great intellectual figure.

Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) was a hugely influential French philosopher, novelist, playwright, and pamphleteer. In 1964 he declined the Nobel Prize for Literature. Among his most well-known works available in English are Nausea, Being and Nothingness, No Exit, Critique of Dialectical Reason, and The Words.

Ronald Aronson is the author of The Dialectics of Disaster, After Marxism, Camus and Sartre and Living Without God. He teaches at Wayne State University.

Adrian van den Hoven is Professor Emeritus at the University of Windsor and founding Executive Editor of Sartre Studies International. He has translated Sartre, Camus, and other French writers, and is the author of several books about Sartre. He was twice elected President of the North American Sartre Society.

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ISBN 13	9780743244077
ISBN 10	0743244079
Title	Quiet Moments in a War
Author	Simone De Beauvoir
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Simon & Schuster
Year published	2002-05-21
Number of pages	336
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