At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails by Sarah Bakewell

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

Sarah Bakewell

448 pages first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction biography philosophy challenging informative medium-paced
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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 o...

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