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Source: BBC Radio 4 "Book of the Week"
Roundup

Hazel Rowley on De Beauvoir & Sartre 4th of 5 [15min]

Sartre's refusal to accept the Nobel Prize causes controversy. De Beauvoir and Sartre are one of the world's most iconic couples, having had a notoriously open relationship and producing some of the 20th century's most influential writing on modern thought. Eleanor Bron reads from Hazel Rowley's biography Tête-à-Tête: Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre.
Read entire article at BBC Radio 4 "Book of the Week"