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A Dangerous Liaison tells the intense, passionate, and sometimes painful story of how two brilliant free-thinkers, lovers, and rivals came to share a relationship that lasted more than fifty years.
Moving from the corridors of the Sorbonne to the cafés of Paris’s Left Bank, we discover how the strikingly beautiful and gifted young Simone DeBeauvoir came to fall in love with the squinting, arrogant, hard-drinking Jean-Paul Sartre. We learn about that first summer of 1929, filled with heated debates that went on long into the night, sexual rivalry and betrayal, and the dangerous ideas that led people to experiment with new ways of behaving. We hear how Sartre compromised with the Nazis and fell into a Soviet honey-trap. And, thanks to recently discovered letters written by the avowed feminist DeBeauvoir, Seymour-Jones reveals the darker, more dangerous side to the couple’s philosophy of free love, including Simone’s lesbianism and her pimping of younger girls for Jean-Paul in order to keep his love.
Finally available in the U.S., this is a compelling and fascinating account of what lay behind the legend that this brilliant, tempestuous couple created.
Author Information
Carole Seymour-Jones was born in North Wales and educated at Oxford and Sussex Universities. Her recent biography Painted Shadow: The Life of Vivienne Eliot was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. She is the chair of the Writers in Prison Committee of English PEN, and co-editor of Another Sky: Voices of Conscience from Around the World, a collection of pieces by writers imprisoned for expressing their views.
Moving from the corridors of the Sorbonne to the cafés of Paris’s Left Bank, we discover how the strikingly beautiful and gifted young Simone DeBeauvoir came to fall in love with the squinting, arrogant, hard-drinking Jean-Paul Sartre. We learn about that first summer of 1929, filled with heated debates that went on long into the night, sexual rivalry and betrayal, and the dangerous ideas that led people to experiment with new ways of behaving. We hear how Sartre compromised with the Nazis and fell into a Soviet honey-trap. And, thanks to recently discovered letters written by the avowed feminist DeBeauvoir, Seymour-Jones reveals the darker, more dangerous side to the couple’s philosophy of free love, including Simone’s lesbianism and her pimping of younger girls for Jean-Paul in order to keep his love.
Finally available in the U.S., this is a compelling and fascinating account of what lay behind the legend that this brilliant, tempestuous couple created.
Author Information
Carole Seymour-Jones was born in North Wales and educated at Oxford and Sussex Universities. Her recent biography Painted Shadow: The Life of Vivienne Eliot was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. She is the chair of the Writers in Prison Committee of English PEN, and co-editor of Another Sky: Voices of Conscience from Around the World, a collection of pieces by writers imprisoned for expressing their views.
Praise for A Dangerous Liaison
“Seymour-Jones’s narrative crackles and pops with engrossing anecdotes.” —The Observer
“Filled with delicious detail ... eminently readable. Seymour-Jones’s book is as page-turning as it is scholarly. The end result is quite dazzling.” —The Guardian
“A fascinating new book.” —The Daily Mail
“Seymour-Jones’s narrative crackles and pops with engrossing anecdotes.” —The Observer
“Filled with delicious detail ... eminently readable. Seymour-Jones’s book is as page-turning as it is scholarly. The end result is quite dazzling.” —The Guardian
“A fascinating new book.” —The Daily Mail
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