Daily Archives: February 8, 2024

The Mandarins – Simone de Beauvoir (1954)

“The Mandarins is unquestionably an important book. Two winters ago in Paris it shared honors with Françoise Sagan’s Bonjour Tristesse as the most discussed novel of the season. A public accustomed to short novels—or vast romans fleuves appearing in 200-page … Continue reading

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