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Source: BBC Radio 4 "Book of the Week"

Roundup

1-30-06

Hazel Rowley on Beauvoir & Sartre [15min]

Eleanor Bron reads from Hazel Rowley's biography Tête-à-Tête: Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre. Beauvoir and Sartre are one of the world's most iconic couples. They had a notoriously open relationship and produced some of the century's most influential writing on modern thought. The two meet as students at the Sorbonne.

Read entire article at BBC Radio 4 "Book of the Week"