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The Mandarins

by Simone De Beauvoir

Intellectual life in postwar Paris

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Intellectual life in postwar Paris

Set in Paris at the end of World War II, the novel examines an intellectual circle through intertwined personal and political concerns. Its fictionalized portraits draw on figures including Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Arthur Koestler, and Nelson Algren, placing the period’s philosophical currents alongside the private choices of a woman negotiating desire and public life. The combination of social portraiture and political drama gives the book a distinctly postwar frame: ideas and relationships are presented as part of the same unsettled world.

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  • Readers interested in literary fiction about postwar Paris and intellectual society.
  • Readers seeking novels that connect private relationships with political and philosophical questions.

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Postwar intellectual lifePrivate desire and public lifePolitics and philosophy

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Book overview

In her most famous novel, The Mandarins, Simone de Beauvoir takes an unflinching look at Parisian intellectual society at the end of World War II. In fictionally relating the stories of those around her -- Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Arthur Koestler, Nelson Algren -- de Beauvoir dissects the emotional and philosophical currents of her time. At once an engrossing drama and an intriguing political tale, The Mandarins is the emotional odyssey of a woman torn between her inner desires and her public life. "Much more than a roman
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