Tete-a-Tete (57 page)

8
.
S de B to Sylvie Le Bon, Hotel Okura, Japan, October 17, 1966, Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir archives.

9
.
My interview with Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir, September 16, 2003.

10
.
Adieux,
p. 102.

11
.
My interview with Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir, Feb. 3, 2004.

12
.
Ibid., April 12, 2004.

13
.
Adieux,
p. 53.

14
.
Bair,
Simone de Beauvoir,
p. 676, note 13.

15
.
Adieux,
p. 64.

16
.
S to S de B, November 18, 1939, in
Witness,
p. 352.

17
.
Adieux,
p. 69.

18
.
Beauvoir would publish these conversations as the second half of
Adieux.

19
.
Dialogue between Sartre and Lévy about their collaboration, in
Libération,
January 6, 1977. Beauvoir quotes it in
Adieux,
p. 99.

20
.
Cohen-Solal,
Sartre,
p. 501.

21
.
Program on Benny Lévy on
France Culture,
October 25, 2003, after his death.

22
.
Cohen-Solal,
Sartre,
p. 497.

23
.
Cohen-Solal,
Sartre,
p. 500.

24
.
Siegel,
In the Shadow of Sartre,
p. 137.

25
.
In the last years of his life, Sartre was again in debt to Gallimard, which worried him a great deal. Before he died, he signed over half his rights to his publishers. Gallimard would make a fortune from posthumous sales of his work.

26
.
Adieux,
p. 103.

27
.
My interview with Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir, July 17, 2002.

28
.
Adieux,
p. 85.

29
.
My interview with Michelle Vian, October 12–14, 2003.

30
.
Adieux,
p. 100.

31
.
My interview with Michelle Vian, July 11 and 12, 2002.

32
.
My interview with Liliane Siegel, Paris, July 14, 2002. In her book
In the Shadow of Sartre
(p. 161), Siegel does not give the real reason for Sartre's fury.

33
.
Olivier Todd,
Un Fils rebelle
(Paris: Grasset, 1981), p. 116.

34
.
Claude Lanzmann told Todd that these lines hit Beauvoir very hard. My interview with Olivier Todd, July 31, 2002.

35
.
Adieux,
p. 30.

36
.
Gerassi interview with Arlette Elkaïm Sartre, March 5, 1973.

37
.
Cohen-Solal,
Sartre,
p. 510.

38
.
Adieux,
pp. 110–11.

39
.
Edward Said, “My Encounter with Sartre,”
London Review of Books,
June 1, 2000.

40
.
Françoise Sagan,
Avec mon meilleur souvenir
(Paris: Gallimard, 1984), pp. 147–58.

41
.
In her book
Avec mon meilleur souvenir,
Sagan covertly criticized Beauvoir for the details in
Adieux:
“I was never horrified or shocked by the way he ate. Of course, it was all a bit hit-or-miss…I take great exception to those who have bewailed these meals…. I have naturally been angered by the shameful stories of Sartre's being senile told by people who were close to him.”

42
.
Siegel,
In the Shadow of Sartre,
p. 157.

43
.
Ibid., p. 159.

44
.
My interview with Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir, July 17, 2002.

45
.
Bair,
Simone de Beauvoir,
p. 583.

46
.
My interview with Denise Pouillon, Paris, July 2, 2002.

47
.
Cohen-Solal,
Sartre,
p. 514.

48
.
Adieux,
p. 123.

49
.
Georges Michel,
Mes Années Sartre
(Paris: Hachette, 1981), p. 201.

50
.
Bair,
Simone de Beauvoir,
p. 589.

51
.
The publication of Beauvoir's letters to Sartre, which Sylvie Le Bon did not in any way censor, was a devastating blow to Poupette. She had spent a lifetime believing that she and Simone were devoted to each other. Now she read the very cruel comments Simone made about her to Sartre. Close friends say that Poupette never recovered from the shock. (Poupette had more than eighty loving letters from Beauvoir, which she wanted to publish, to show the public the other side of the picture. Sylvie Le Bon, Beauvoir's literary executor, who owned the copyright, would not give permission.)

52
.
My interview with Liliane Siegel, Paris, June 8, 2004.

53
.
Toril Moi writes of
Adieux:
“Beauvoir's bleak and devitalized prose conveys not only her inability to lift herself out of her sorrow, but also her resolute determination not to mention her conflicts with Sartre. For it is not only Sartre's death that pains Beauvoir, it is also his lack of loyalty to her during their final years, and his cavalier disregard for her feelings in his dealings with other women. The price she pays is an almost complete blockage of affect in her language: on the pages of
Adieux,
her prose is dry as dust. The contrast to
A Very Easy Death
could not be greater: when Beauvoir finally forces herself to confront her long-buried feelings for her mother, she produces the most vibrant, energetic and moving prose she ever wrote” (
Simone de Beauvoir,
p. 251).

54
.
Adieux,
pp. 119–120.

55
.
Arlette Elkaïm Sartre,
Libération,
December 3, 1981, p. 26.

56
.
Bair,
Simone de Beauvoir,
p. 599.

This bibliography includes only those books, articles, and interviews mentioned in the text.

Simone de Beauvoir

She Came to Stay
(Paris, 1943). Translated by Yvonne Moyse and Roger Senhouse (New York: Norton, 1954).

The Blood of Others
(Paris, 1945). Translated by Yvonne Moyse and Roger Senhouse (New York: Knopf, 1948).

The Second Sex,
2 vols. (Paris, 1949). Translated by H. M. Parshley(New York: Knopf, 1953).

America Day by Day
(Paris, 1948). Translated by Patrick Dudley (New York: Grove Press, 1953); trans. Carol Cosman (Berkeley, Los Angeles & London: University of California Press, 1999).

The Mandarins
(Paris, 1954). Translated by Leonard M. Friedman (Cleveland: World Publishing, 1956).

Privilèges.
Paris: Gallimard, 1955.

The Long March
(Paris, 1957). Translated by Austryn Wainhouse (Cleveland: World Publishing, 1958).

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
(Paris, 1958). Translated by James Kirkup(Cleveland and New York: World Publishing, 1959).

The Prime of Life
(Paris, 1960). Translated by Peter Green (Cleveland and New York: World Publishing, 1962).

Djamila Boupacha
(with Gisèle Halimi) (Paris 1962). Translated by Peter Green (New York: MacMillan, 1962).

Force of Circumstance
(Paris, 1963). Translated by Richard Howard (New York: Putnam, 1964).

A Very Easy Death
(Paris, 1964). Translated by Patrick O'Brian (New York: Putnam, 1966).

Woman Destroyed
(Paris, 1967). Translated by Patrick O'Brian (New York: Putnam, 1969).

The Coming of Age
(Paris, 1970). Translated by Patrick O'Brian (New York: Putnam, 1974).

All Said and Done
(Paris, 1972). Translated by Patrick O'Brian (New York: Putnam, 1974).

When Things of the Spirit Come First
(Paris, 1979). Translated by Patrick O'Brian (New York: Pantheon, 1982).

Adieux: A Farewell to Sartre
(Paris, 1981). Translated by Patrick O'Brian (New York: Putnam, 1984).

Journal de guerre: Septembre 1939–janvier 1941.
Edited by Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir (Paris: Gallimard, 1990).

Letters to Sartre 1940–1963
(Paris, 1990). Translated by Quintin Hoare (New York: Arcade Publishing, 1991).

A Transatlantic Love Affair: Letters to Nelson Algren
(Paris, 1997) (New York: New Press, 1998).

Correspondance croisée: Simone de Beauvoir et Jacques-Laurent Bost, 1937–1940
(Paris: Gallimard, 2004).

Articles and Interviews by/with Beauvoir

“Malentendu à Moscou,”
Roman 20–50, Revue d'étude du roman du XX siècle
13, (juin 1992).

“Jean-Paul Sartre: Strictly Personal.” Translated by Malcolm Cowley.
Harper's Bazaar,
January 1946.

“The Talk of the Town,” article-interview.
The New Yorker,
February 22, 1947.

“Merleau-Ponty and Pseudo-Sartreanism,” (
TM,
June–July 1955). Collected in
Privilèges
(Paris: Gallimard, 1955).

“Le Manifeste des 343. Notre ventre nous appartient.”
Le Nouvel Observateur,
avril 5–11, 1971.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Nausea
(Paris, 1938). Translated by Lloyd Alexander (New York: New Directions, 1949).

The Wall
(Paris, 1939). Translated by Lloyd Alexander (New York: New Directions, 1948).

Being and Nothingness
(Paris, 1943). Translated by Hazel E. Barnes (New York: Philosophical Library, 1956).

The Flies
(Paris, 1943). Translated by Stuart Gilbert (New York: Knopf, 1947).

No Exit
(Paris, 1944). Translated by Lionel Abel (New York: Vintage, 1955).

Portrait of the Anti-Semite
(Paris, 1945). Translated by George J. Becker (New York: Schocken, 1948).

The Age of Reason
(Paris, 1945). Translated by Eric Sutton (New York: Knopf, 1947).

Existentialism
(Paris, 1946). Translated by Bernard Frechtman (New York: Philosophical Library, 1947).

The Devil and the Good Lord
(Paris, 1951). Translated by Kitty Black (New York: Knopf, 1960).

Kean
(Paris, 1954). Translated by Kitty Black (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1954).

Saint Genet
(Paris, 1952). Translated by Bernard Frechtman (New York: George Braziller, 1963).

Search for a Method
(Paris, 1957). Translated by Hazel E. Barnes (New York: Knopf, 1963).

The Condemned of Altona
(Paris, 1959). Translated by Sylvia and George Leeson (New York: Knopf, 1961).

Critique of Dialectical Reason
(Paris, 1960). Translated by Alan Sheridan (London, New Left Books, 1976).

Words
(Paris, 1964). Translated by Irene Clephane (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1964).

The Family Idiot, Gustave Flaubert, 1821–1857.
vols. 1–2 (Paris, 1971). Translated by Carol Cosman (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981 and 1987).

Situations
(translation of
Situations IV,
Paris, 1964). Translated by Benita Eisler and Maria Jolas (New York: George Braziller, 1965).

Life/Situations: Essays Written and Spoken by Jean-Paul Sartre
(translation of
Situations X,
Paris, 1975). Translated by Paul Auster and Lydia Davis (New York: Random House, 1977).

Sartre.
Texte intégral du film réalisé par Alexandre Astruc et Michel Contat (Paris, Gallimard, 1977).

Witness to My Life: The Letters of Jean-Paul Sartre to Simone de Beauvoir, 1926–1939
(Paris, 1983). Translated by Lee Fahnestock and Norman MacAfee (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1992).

Quiet Moments in a War: The Letters of Jean-Paul Sartre to Simone de Beauvoir, 1940–1963
(Paris, 1983). Translated by Lee Fahnestock and Norman MacAfee (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1993).

The War Diaries: November 1939–March 1940
(Paris, 1983). Translated by Quintin Hoare (New York: Pantheon Books, 1984).

Carnets de la drôle de guerre, sept. 1939–mars 1940
(Paris: Gallimard, 1995). (Contains the first notebook, Sept.–Oct. 1939, which is not included in the earlier English edition.)

La Reine Albemarle ou le dernier touriste
(Paris: Gallimard, 1991).

Hope Now: The 1980 Interviews,
Jean-Paul Sartre and Benny Lévy (Paris, 1991). Translated by Adrian van den Hoven (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1996).

Articles and Interviews by/with Sartre

“Individualisme et Conformisme aux Etats-Unis,” (1945).
Situations III.

“Paris sous l'Occupation,” (1945).
Situations III.

“Reply to Albert Camus” (
TM,
August 1952).
Life/Situations.

“Après Budapest, Sartre parle.”
L'Express,
Nov. 9, 1956.

Jacqueline Piatier with Sartre, “A Long, Bitter, Sweet Madness.”
Encounter,
June 1964.

“Jean-Paul Sartre: A Candid Conversation with the Charismatic Fountainhead of Existentialism and Rejecter of the Nobel Prize.” Interview with Madeleine Gobeil.
Playboy
(Chicago), May 1965.

Sartre, “Les Bastilles de Raymond Aron.”
Nouvel Observateur,
June 19–25, 1968.

“Sartre et les femmes.” Interview with Catherine Chaîne.
Le Nouvel Observateur,
January 31, 1977, and February 7, 1977.

“Self Portrait at Seventy.” Interview with Michel Contat.
Nouvel Observateur,
June and July 1975, reprinted in
Life/Situations.

“Letters to Wanda,”
Les Temps modernes,
Oct.–Dec. 1990, nos. 531–33, pp. 1292–1429.

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———.
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