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Simon de Beauvoir was born in Paris in 1908. A close friend of the writer and philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, and well-known as a leader of the Existentialist movement in Paris. Her famous feminist work, The Second Sex, was hailed as a landmark study of women, and her novels, including The Woman Destroyed and She Came to Stay, have become well-loved classics. She died in 1968.
<p>âA remarkable novel.â Iris Murdoch, Sunday Times</p>
<p>âA dazzling panorama of the giants of the Left Bank.â New Statesman</p>
<p>âThe characters, especially the women, are uninhibited and sometimes predatory. The dialogues are salty, frank and realistic. The charactersâ amorous adventures are set down with microscopic exactitude.â Guardian</p>
<p>âThere are few, a very few, novels from which one comes away with the feeling of having travelled, experienced, learned⌠such a book is The Mandarins.â Bookman</p>
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Simon de Beauvoir was born in Paris in 1908. A close friend of the writer and philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, and well-known as a leader of the Existentialist movement in Paris. Her famous feminist work, The Second Sex, was hailed as a landmark study of women, and her novels, including The Woman Destroyed and She Came to Stay, have become well-loved classics. She died in 1968.