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Reason
, ix dedication of
Being and

Nothingness
dedication of
Nausea

dedication of
No Exit

dedication of
Roads to Freedom

dedication of
The Victors

dedication of
The Wall

dedication of
Words

The Devil and the Good Lord

Dirty Hands

discussions of Sartre and Pierre Victor

Ethics

The Family Idiot: Gustave Flaubert,

fictional portraits of Olga Kosakiewicz

Le Figaro
articles

The Flies
foreword to

Nizan's
Aden Arabie
“The

Imagination,” Italy, book begun on

(published posthumously) journals
Kean

letters to Beauvoir

published 1983 letters and

journals, intent of publication, xiii

Libération
newspaper

editing and contributions

literary estate

Mathieu Delarue, characters based on himself

Melancholia
(early version of
Nausea
)

Nausea
, ix, x

Nobel Prize, ix

No Exit

“Paris Under the Occupation,”

plays of, ix

(
see also specific titles
);

Portrait of an Anti-Semite

Power and Liberty
(with Pierre Victor)

preface, Cartier

Bresson's China book preface

Frantz Fanon's
Wretched of the Earth

reading and influences

rejections of early works

The Reprieve

The Respectful

Prostitute

Roads to Freedom

Russia, articles and apologia for

Saint Genet
, ix

The Salem Witches

Search for a Method

Situations

Temps

modernes,
journal

The Victors

“The Wall,”

The Wall

Words

S
IMONE DE BEAUVOIR AND:

advice on her writing

Algerian trip

American trip, 1945, and

in Berlin and, 1933

Brazil trip, 1960

China trip, 1955

consummation of relationship, 1929

Cuba trip, 1960

Czechoslovakia trip, 1968

daily schedule, later life

declarations of love

discontent and

Easter vacation, Saint-Paul-de-Vence

Easter vacation, Saint-

Tropez, 1953

as famous couple

first meetings of, 1929

first summer in

Limousin, 1929

games between them

her love affairs and his response, x

illness of Simone, 1937

inequality of relationship

interview, 1975, and

Italy trips

Italy, yearly retreat in Rome, 1956 on

Japan, 1966

living arrangements, Paris, 1937–1939

Mégève, 1945, letters to

Middle East trip, 1967

military service, 1929–1930

relationship during

Morocco trip, 1938

note from 1930

“oneness,”

as open relationship, xii–xiii; pact

physical relationship

reading and criticism by

Beauvoir of his writing

in Rouen, 1932–1933

Russian trips

Sahara crossing with

Saint-Lambert trip, 1947

Spanish trip, 1931

stepfather's disapproval

summer vacations with

tenth anniversary

vacation, 1934

Yugoslavia visits

T
EACHING CAREER:

fellowship at

French Institute, Berlin

influence and popularity, xii

Laon Le Havre Paris

W
ORLD
W
AR
II:

called up, 1939

impact on, x

leaves, 1940

letters to Beauvoir

liberation of Paris and

meeting with Beauvoir

Brumath, 1939

as prisoner of war

as reservist

resistance efforts

resistance group, CNE

return to Paris, March

Sartre
(Lévy), xiv

Satin Slipper, The
(Claudel)

Schoenmann, Ralph

Schwarzer, Alice, xii

Schweitzer, Albert

Schweitzer, Charles

Scotland

Shay, Art

Shoah
(film)

Sholokhov, Mikhail

Siegel, Liliane

Signoret, Simone

Silone, Ignazio

Simon, Pierre

Simon, René

Simone de Beauvoir
(film)

Simonov, Konstantin

Sinyavsky, Andrei

Social Contract
(Rousseau)

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

Sorbonne.
See
Paris

Sorokine (Moffat), Nathalie

scandal caused by

Soupault, Philippe

Spain

Spain Day by Day
(Bost)

Stalin, Josef, and Stalinist Russia, xiii

Stevens, George

structuralism

Swing, Sally

Taverny, France

Temps modernes, Les

“Everyday Sexism” column

Testament amoureux, Le
(Rezvani)

Thaw, The
(Ehrenburg)

Todd, Oliver

Tous les désespoirs sont permis
(Papatakis)

Trieste, Italy

Tuffreau, Suzanne

Tunisiav

United States:
America Day by Day

published in Bay of Pigs and

embargo of Cuba Beauvoir's

American tour

Beauvoir's return to Chicago and

Cold War and

The Coming of Age
published in

fame of Sartre and Beauvoir in

Force of

Circumstance
translated

The Mandarins
published in

racism in Rosenberg executions

Sartre's criticism of

Sartre's visits

The Second Sex
published in

women's status in

Valéry, Paul

Vanetti, Dolores

Verstraeten, Pierre

Vian, Boris

Vian, Michell

Vian, Michelle
(cont.)

abortions of attempt to have Sartre's child

Vian, Patrick

Vichy, France

Victor, Pierre (Benny Lévy)

discussions with Sartre

Vietnam: Dien Bien Phu Russell

Tribunal U.S. war in, protesting

Ville, Jean-André

Ville, Marie

Vitold, Michel

Vittorini, Elio

VVV
magazine

Weatherby, W. J.

Weill-Hallé, Lagroua

Wolfe, Bernard

Women: abortion issue and the

“Manifesto of the”

Beauvoir on American

Beauvoir on, in

The Second Sex
liberation groups

World War II: Auschwitz

Bost called up

Bost return to Paris

Bost wounded Dachau

death of Nizan

death of Politzer

Drancy internment camp

France, Free Zone

France surrenders French

complicity with Jewish genocide

French Resistance (communist)

Fresnes prison France

German invasion of

Denmark and Norway

German invasion of Holland, Belgium, and

Luxembourg Germany surrenders

Gestapo in Paris and arrests

impact on Beauvoir and Sartre's thinking, x;

Japan surrenders

Jewish persecution

liberation of Paris

Maginot Line broken

Paris occupied “Phony War,”

Sartre and Beauvoir in resistance

(Socialism and Liberty)

Sartre called up

Sartre in the CNE (National Committee of Writers)

Sartre as prisoner of war

Sartre return to Paris

“Under the Boot” resistance group

Vichy government and

French collaborators

Zazou movement

Wretched of the Earth, The
(Fanon)

Wright, Ellen and Richard

Yugoslavia

Zeitgeist
magazine

Zonin, Alexander

Zonina, Lena

Zuorro, Marc

Grateful acknowledgment is made to Éditions Gallimard for permission to quote from the following books:

 

Simone de Beauvoir:
Mémoires d'une jeune fille rangée, La Force de l'âge, La Force des choses, Tout compte fait, Le Sang des autres, Journal de guerre, Une mort très douce,
and
La Cérémonie des adieux.

 

Jean-Paul Sartre:
Carnets de la drôle de guerre
and
Situations I
(1948),
Situations III
(1949),
Situations IV
(1964).

 

Simone de Beauvoir and Jacques-Laurent Bost:
Correspondance croisée (1937–1940)
. Claude Francis and Fernande Gontier:
Les Écrits de Simone de Beauvoir.
Michel Leiris:
Journal (1922–1989).
Raymond Queneau:
Journaux (1914–1965)
and
Journal (1939–1940).
Françoise Sagan:
Avec mon meilleur souvenir.

 

Grateful acknowledgment also is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material:

 

Nelson Algren. Excerpts from
Ramparts
,
Zeitgeist
, and
Harper's Magazine
. Reprinted with the permission of the Estate of Nelson Algren.

 

Jacques-Pierre Arnette. Excerpt from “Simone de Beauvoir: Ces lettres qui ébranlent un my the” in
Le Point
. Reprinted with permission.

 

Deirdre Bair. Excerpts from
Simone de Beauvoir
. Copyright © 1990 Deirdre Bair. Reprinted in the U.S. with the permission of Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group. Reprinted in the U.K. with the permission of The Random House Group Ltd.

 

Simone de Beauvoir. Excerpts from unpublished early journals, unpublished correspondence, and the short story, “Malentendu à Moscou.” Reprinted with the permission of Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir. Excerpts from
Adieux: A Farewell to Sartre
, translated by Patrick O'Brian. Translation copyright © 1984 by Patrick O'Brian. Reprinted in the U.S. with the permission of Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc.
Reprinted in the U.K. with the permission of Weidenfeld & Nicolson, a division of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd. Excerpts from
America Day By Day
, translated by Carol Cosman. Copyright © 1954 Éditions Gallimard, copyright © 1998 Regents of the University of California. Reprinted with the permission of the Regents of the University of California and the University of California Press. Excerpt from
The Blood of Others
. Copyright © 1945 Éditions Gallimard. Reprinted with the permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc. Excerpts from
Letters to Sartre
. Copyright © 1990 Éditions Gallimard. Translation copyright © 1991 Quintin Hoare. Reprinted with the permission of Little, Brown and Co., Inc. Excerpts from
The Mandarins
, translated by Leonard M. Friedman. Copyright © 1954 by Éditions Gallimard. Reprinted with the permission of W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. Excerpts from
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
. Copyright © 1958 by Librairie Gallimard. Translation copyright © 1959 by The World Publishing Company. Reprinted in the U.S. with the permission of HarperCollins Publishers Inc. Reprinted in the U.K. with the permission of the Penguin Group Ltd. Excerpts from
The Second Sex
. Copyright © 1949 Éditions Gallimard. Reprinted with the permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc. Excerpts from
She Came to Stay
, translated by Leonard M. Friedman. Copyright © 1954 by the World Publishing Company. Reprinted with the permission of W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. Excerpts from
Transatlantic Love Affair
. Reprinted with the permission of The New Press. Excerpts from
A Very Easy Death
. Reprinted with the permission of Rosica Colin Ltd.

 

Ewa Bérard-Zarzycka. Excerpts from “Sartre et Beauvoir en U.R.S.S.” in
Commentaire
. Reprinted with permission.

 

Michel-Antoine Burnier. Excerpt from
L'Adieu à Sartre
. Copyright © 2000 Éditions Plon. Reprinted with permission.

 

Jean Cau. Excerpts from
Croquis de mémoire
. Copyright © 1985 Éditions Julliard. Reprinted with permission.

 

Catherine Chaîne. Excerpts from “Sartre et les femmes.” Copyright © 1977
Le Nouvel Observateur
. Reprinted with permission.

 

Annie Cohen-Solal. Excerpts from
Sartre: A Life
, translated by Anna Cancogni. Copyright © 1985, 1989 Anniel Cohen-Solal. Reprinted with the permission of Georges Borchardt, Inc. on behalf of author.

 

Michel Contat. Excerpt from “Sartre/Beauvoir, légende et réalité d'un couple.” Reprinted with permission of the author.

 

H.E.F. Donohue. Excerpt from
Conversations with Nelson Algren
. Copyright © 1964 H.E.F. Donohue. Copyright renewed 1992 by Robert Joffe. Reprinted with the permission of Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC.

 

L'Express
. Excerpt from interview with Arlette Elkaïm Sartre. Copyright © 1983. Reprinted with permission.

 

Ingrid Galster. Excerpts from
La Naissance du “phénomène Sartre,” Raisons d'un succès (1938–1945)
. Copyright © 2001 Éditions du Seuil.

 

John Gerassi. Excerpts from interviews with Simone de Beauvoir, Sartre, Arlette Elkaïm Sartre, Claude Lanzmann, Olga Kosakiewicz, Wanda Kosakiewitz. Reprinted with the permission of John Gerassi.

 

Gisèle Halimi. Excerpts from
Milk for the Orange Tree
. Reprinted with the permission of Quartet Books Ltd.

 

John Huston. Excerpt from
An Open Book
. Reprinted with the permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc.

 

Arthur and Cynthia Koestler. Excerpt from
Stranger on the Square
. Reprinted with the permission of PFD on behalf of the Estate of Arthur Koestler.

 

Bianca Lamblin.
A Disgraceful Affair
. Copyright © 1993 Bianca Lamblin. Translation copyright © 1996 Julie Plovnik. Reprinted with the permission of Northeastern University Press and University Press of New England.

 

Jacques Lanzmann. Excerpt from
Le Voleur de hasards
. Reprinted with the permission of Éditions Jean-Claude Lattès.

 

A.J. Liebling. Excerpt from “Talk of the Town.” Copyright ©1946 A.J. Liebling, renewed 1974 by A.J. Liebling. Story originally appeared in
The New Yorker,
March 16, 1946. Reprinted with the permission of Russell & Volkening, Inc. as agents for the author.

 

The New Yorker
. Excerpt from “Talk of the Town,” February 22, 1947. Reprinted with the permission of
The New Yorker/
The Condé Nast Publications, Inc.

 

Henriette Nizan. Excerpts from
Libres Mémoires
. Copyright © 1989 Éditions Robert Laffont. Reprinted with permission.

 

Le Nouvel Observateur
. Excerpt from the obituary of Evelyne Rey. Copyright © 1966. Reprinted with permission.

 

Edward Said. Excerpts from “My Encounter with Sartre.” Copyright © 2000 Edward Said. Reprinted with the permission of The Wylie Agency, Inc.

 

Gonzague Saint Bris and Vladimir Fedorovski. Excerpts from
Les Egéries russes
. Reprinted with the permission of Jean-Claude Lattès.

 

Jean-Paul Sartre. Excerpts from
The Age of Reason
. Reprinted with the permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc. Excerpts from
Life/Situations
, translated by Paul Auster and Lydia Davis. Copyright © 1977 by Random House, Inc. Reprinted with the permission of Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc. Excerpts from
Situations
by Jean-Paul Sartre. Copyright © 1964 Éditions Gallimard. English translation copyright © 1965 by George Braziller, Inc. Reprinted with the permission of Georges Borchardt, Inc., on behalf of Éditions Gallimard. Excerpts from
The War Diaries of Jean-Paul Sartre
. Copyright © 1983 Éditions Gallimard. English translation copyright © 1984 by Verso Editions. Reprinted with the permission of Georges Borchardt, Inc., for Éditions Gallimard. Excerpts from
Words
, trans
lated by Irene Clephane. Copyright © 1964 Éditions Gallimard. Translation copyright © 1964 Hamish Hamilton Ltd. Reprinted in the U.S. with the permission of Vintage, a division of Random House, Inc. Reprinted in the U.K. with the permission of the Penguin Group Ltd. Excerpts from
The Writings of Jean-Paul Sartre: Vol 1. A Bibliographical Life
. Copyright © 1970 Éditions Gallimard. English Translation copyright © 1974 by Northwestern University Press. Reprinted with the permission of Georges Borchardt, Inc., for Éditions Gallimard.

 

Jean-Paul Sartre and Benny Lévy. Excerpts from
Hope Now: The 1980 Interviews
. Reprinted with the permission of The University of Chicago Press.

 

Alice Schwarzer. Excerpts from
After the Second Sex: Conversations with Simone de Beauvoir
, translated by Marianne Howarth. Originally published as
Simone de Beauvoir
:
Rebellin und Wegbereiterin
. Reprinted with the permission of Alice Schwarzer.

 

Liliane Siegel. Excerpts from
In the Shadow of Sartre
. Copyright © 1990 Liliane Siegel. Reprinted with the permission of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.

 

Margaret A. Simons. Excerpts from “The Search for Beauvoir's Early Philosophy.” Reprinted with the permission of
Simone de Beauvoir Studies
. Excerpts from “Lesbian Connections: Simone de Beauvoir Margaret A. Simons.” Reprinted with the permission of The University of Chicago Press.

 

Olivier Todd. Excerpt from
Un Fils Rebelle
. Reprinted with the permission of Éditions Bernard Grasset.

 

John Weightman. Excerpt from “Battle of the Century—Sartre vs. Flaubert.” Copyright © 1972 NYREV, Inc. Reprinted with the permission of
The New York Review of Books
.

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