Hazel Rowley

سيمون دو بوفوار وجان بول سارتر وجهاً لوجه

Passionate, freethinking existentialist philosopher-writers Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre are one of the world's legendary couples. Their committed but notoriously open union generated no end of controversy in their day. Biographer Hazel Rowley offers the first dual portrait of these two colossal figures and their intense, often embattled relationship. Through original interviews and access to new primary sources, Rowley portrays Sartre and Beauvoir up close. Tête-à-Tête magnificently details the passion, daring, humor, and contradictions of a remarkably unorthodox relationship.

The Tumultuous Lives and Loves of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre

Tete-a-Tete

Tahar Ben Jelloun

Kevin Michel Capé

Traces an intense thirty-year relationship between two young men in twentieth-century Tangier, as they struggle to find their identities and sexual fulfillment in late-1950s Morocco, an endeavor that takes them from their carefree university days through a brutal imprisonment and psychologically daunting release into the moral strictures of North Africa. By the author of This Blinding Absence of Light.

A Novel

The Last Friend

On ne naît pas Simone de Beauvoir et Jean-Paul Sartre : on le devient. Et si l'on croyait tout savoir sur eux, c'était mal les connaître... Ils avaient la passion de la vérité, en politique, en littérature, en amour. Ils s'étaient juré de tout se dire et de ne jamais rien voiler au public. Et pourtant. lis ont encore bien des secrets à nous livrer... De la Sorbonne au Flore, des lycées de province aux Temps modernes, du Paris des années zazou aux nuits blanches de Saint-Pétersbourg, du Chicago de Nelson Algren aux villégiatures romaines - sans oublier la ronde enivrante des amours " contingentes " - cette radiographie intime d'un couple de légende nous fait vivre, au jour le jour, un " pacte " singulier. Hazel Rowley dépoussière les images figées de la postérité et, nombreux témoignages et documents inédits à l'appui, révèle ces deux personnages exceptionnels comme on ne les avait jamais vus : un Sartre farceur et retors, complexe et plus séducteur que jamais. Et une Beauvoir non moins séductrice, émouvante et fragile, aussi belle et romantique que farouchement indépendante. Et si leur aventure intellectuelle n'avait été, d'abord, qu'une grande aventure amoureuse...

Beauvoir et Sartre : un pacte d'amour

Tête-à-tête

Franklin Delano and Eleanor Roosevelt’s marriage is one of the most celebrated and scrutinized partnerships in presidential history. It raised eyebrows in their lifetimes and has only become more controversial since their deaths. From FDR’s lifelong romance with Lucy Mercer to Eleanor’s purported lesbianism—and many scandals in between—the American public has never tired of speculating about the ties that bound these two headstrong individuals. Some claim that Eleanor sacrificed her personal happiness to accommodate FDR’s needs; others claim that the marriage was nothing more than a gracious façade for political convenience. No one has told the full story until now. In this groundbreaking new account of the marriage, Hazel Rowley describes the remarkable courage and lack of convention—private and public—that kept FDR and Eleanor together. She reveals a partnership that was both supportive and daring. Franklin, especially, knew what he owed to Eleanor, who was not so much behind the scenes as heavily engaged in them. Their relationship was the product of FDR and Eleanor’s conscious efforts—a partnership that they created according to their own ambitions and needs. In this dramatic and vivid narrative, set against the great upheavals of the Depression and World War II, Rowley paints a portrait of a tender lifelong companionship, born of mutual admiration and compassion. Most of all, she depicts an extraordinary evolution—from conventional Victorian marriage to the bold and radical partnership that has made Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt go down in history as one of the most inspiring and fascinating couples of all time.

An Extraordinary Marriage

Franklin and Eleanor

Skillfully interweaving quotations from Wright's writings, Rowley portrays a man who transcended the times in which he lived and sought to reconcile opposing cultures in his work. In this lively, finely crafted narrative, Wright--passionate, complex, courageous, and flawed--comes vibrantly to life. Two 8-page photo inserts.

The Life and Times

Richard Wright

Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Startre are one of the world's legendary couples. Through original interviews, this work portrays Beauvoir and Sartre with their circle, holding court in Paris cafes. It provides details of their infamous romantic entanglements with the young Olga Kosakiewicz and others; and more.

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