Mandarins

Beauvoir, Simone de

ISBN 10: 0393318834 / ISBN 13: 9780393318838

Published by W. W. Norton & Company, 1999

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Mandarins
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393318834
• ISBN 13: 9780393318838
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

"Salty, frank, and realistic." ― San Francisco Chronicle

In her most famous novel, The Mandarins, Simone de Beauvoir takes an unflinching look at Parisian intellectual society at the end of World War II. In fictionally relating the stories of those around her ― Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Arthur Koestler, Nelson Algren ― de 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 desires and her public life. "Much more than a roman à clef . . . a moving and engrossing novel." ― New York Times

About the Author

Simone de Beauvoir is the author of The Second Sex and the winner of the Prix Goncourt, France's highest honor, for The Mandarins.