About the Book: Letters To Sartre
In 1983 de Beauvoir published Sartres letters, maintaining that her own to him
had been lost. They were found by de Beauvoirs adopted daughter, and published
to a storm of controversy in France. Tracing the emotional and triangular
complications of her life with Sartre, the letters reveal her not only as
manipulative and dependent but Simonealso as vulnerable, passionate, jealous and
committed.
About the Author: Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir was born in 1908. She taught philosophy at the Sorbonne
between 1931 and 1943, and afterwards became a full-time writer. Among her most
important books are The Second Sex