Sunday, April 13, 2008

Glued together by their lies - Literary Review

Summary:
Gillian Tindall's review of "A dangerous liaison" by Carole Seymour-Jones. Describes Sartre and Beauvoir's union as fake. Sartre sexually exploiting young women that Beauvoir provided so as to keep up the appearance of a union. One of these women later committed suicide, two became drug addicts and another permanently traumatised. Beauvoir had affair herself. Labile sexuality. Sartre and Beauvoir are also alleged to have exaggerated their role in the resistance during WWII. (04/2008)