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221:. (It was the name of a clandestine newspaper of the French Resistance 1944–1945.) He has been in a relationship with Paula for the past 10 years. Previously in love, he is now unhappily attached. Henri primarily sees himself as a writer and struggles with his increasing involvement in the political arena. 298:
as much as I loathe fictionalized biographies." However, she says that "Anne was made from me, true, ... but I have made her into a woman in whom I do not recognize myself." She does admit that "of all my characters, Lewis is the one who approaches closest to a living model.... It so happens that
315:, and not Camus in the slightest." And as for Dubreuilh, she writes, "The identification of Sartre with Dubreuilh is no less aberrant; the only similarities between them are their common curiosity, concern with the world and fanaticism in work; but Dubreuilh is twenty years older than Sartre." 36: 172:. The characters at times see themselves as ineffectual "mandarins" as they attempt to discern what role, if any, intellectuals will have in influencing the political landscape of the world after World War II. As in Beauvoir's other works, themes of 243:
is Henri's girlfriend. She is unrelentingly committed to her relationship with Henri, despite his indifference and, later, loathing and resentment. She develops severe delusions and paranoia regarding this relationship and is forced to seek medical
237:(considered to be Beauvoir herself) is the wife of Robert. She is a practicing psychoanalyst. She has an affair with the American writer Lewis Brogan. Her reflections on the lives of the other characters comprise a large portion of the text. 307:; not at all. He is young, has dark hair, he runs a newspaper; the resemblance stops there." Furthermore: " in his relations with the Communist Party and in his attitude to Socialism, resembles 231:) is the founder and leader of the SRL, a liberal, non-Communist political group. He is partly responsible for Henri's literary success, and the two are close personal friends. 303:, in his reality, was very representative of what I wanted to represent." Regarding the other characters, she says, "Henri, whatever people have said, is not 629: 624: 558: 416: 201:
as "a remarkable book, a novel on the grand scale, courageous in its exactitude and endearing because of its persistent seriousness".
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is Robert and Anne's daughter. Nadine is haunted by the death of her Jewish boyfriend Diego during the
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The book follows the personal lives of a close-knit group of French intellectuals from the end of
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was first published in English in 1956 (in a translation by Leonard M. Friedman).
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and political landscape but also their shifting relationships with each other.
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In volume 3 of her autobiography, de Beauvoir denies that
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This article is about the 1954 novel. For other uses, see
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A Transatlantic Love Affair: Letters to Nelson Algren
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Index

Mandarin (disambiguation)

Simone de Beauvoir
Novel
World Publishing Company
Hardback
French
1954
roman à clef
Simone de Beauvoir
Prix Goncourt
World War II
scholar-bureaucrats
imperial China
feminism
existentialism
intellectual
Iris Murdoch
Sunday Times
Albert Camus
Jean-Paul Sartre
French Resistance
Nelson Algren
David Cesarani
Arthur Koestler
Algren
Camus
Sartre
Merleau-Ponty
The Mandarins (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

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