At The Existentialist Caf

Release on 2016-03-03 | by Sarah Bakewell

The story of Sartre, Beauvoir, Camus, Heidegger et al is strange, fun and compelling reading.

Author: Sarah Bakewell
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 9781473545328
Category: Philosophy
Page: 448
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At The Existentialist Caf

Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize Paris, near the turn of 1932-3. Three young friends meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse. They are Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and their friend Raymond Aron, who opens their eyes to a radical new way of thinking... ‘It’s not often that you miss your bus stop because you’re so engrossed in reading a book about existentialism, but I did exactly that... The story of Sartre, Beauvoir, Camus, Heidegger et al is strange, fun and compelling reading. If it doesn’t win awards, I will eat my copy’ Independent on Sunday ‘Bakewell shows how fascinating were some of the existentialists’ ideas and how fascinating, often frightful, were their lives. Vivid, humorous anecdotes are interwoven with a lucid and unpatronising exposition of their complex philosophy... Tender, incisive and fair’ Daily Telegraph ‘Quirky, funny, clear and passionate... Few writers are as good as Bakewell at explaining complicated ideas in a way that makes them easy to understand’ Mail on Sunday

Language: en
Pages: 448

At The Existentialist Café

Authors: Sarah Bakewell

Categories: Philosophy

Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-03-03 - Publisher: Random House

Language: en
Pages: 320

The Smart

Authors: Sarah Bakewell

Categories: Biography & Autobiography

Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-06-08 - Publisher: Random House

The Smart is a true drama of eighteenth-century life with a mercurial, mysterious heroine. Caroline is a young Irishwoman who runs off to marry a soldier, comes to London and slides into a glamorous life as a high-class prostitute, a great risk-taker, possessing a mesmerising appeal. In the early 1770s,