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At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails

Sarah Bakewell

At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails

At the Existentialist Café was shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize. Paris, near the turn of 1932-3. Three young friends meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse. They are Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and their friend Raymond Aron, who opens their eyes to a radical new way of thinking.

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Publisher
Random House
Year
2016
ISBN-13
9781473545328
Genre
Biography & Memoir
Topics
Existentialism20th-century philosophySartre and Beauvoir

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