Les Mandarins
- Authors
- Beauvoir, Simone De
- Publisher
- Harper Perennial
- Tags
- philosophy , classics , general , feminism , fiction
- ISBN
- 9780007203949
- Date
- 1954-10-21T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.73 MB
- Lang
- en
In her most famous novel, Simone de Beauvoir does not flinch in her look at Parisian intellectual society at the end of World War II. Drawing on those surrounding her -- Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Arthur Koestler -- and her passionate love affair with Nelson Algren, Beauvoir dissects the emotional and philosophical currents of her time. At once an engrossing drama and an intriguing political tale, *The Mandarins* is the emotional odyssey of a woman torn between her inner desire and her public life.
*The Mandarins* won France's highest literary prize, the Prix Goncourt.