At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Mauri by Sarah Bakewell

At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Mauri

Sarah Bakewell

464 pages first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction biography philosophy challenging informative medium-paced
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Named one of the Ten Best Books of 2016 by the New York Times, a spirited account of a major intellectual movement of the twentieth century and the revolutionary thinkers who came to shape it, by the best-selling author of How to Live Sarah Bakewe...

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informative 94%
reflective 70%
challenging 47%
inspiring 47%
funny 16%
hopeful 8%
emotional 6%
relaxing 5%
sad 5%
adventurous 4%
dark 4%
lighthearted 4%
tense 3%
mysterious 2%

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slow 35%
fast 4%

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