I was happy to finish the biography A Dangerous Liaison - Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre by Carole Seymour-Jones. The read was dense and historical but what held it together was their amorous escapades, polygamist lifestyle, exploited lovers and gossips. As original thinkers though, Beauvoir and Sartre broke through the conventions of bourgeois society and created their own sexual revolution - making the most liberal of liberals seem ah so tame - oh la la! Sartre's ongoing passionate and committed quest to explain our existence led to me despairing at times. (I was long introduced to his works by a progressive high school French teacher.) Beauvoir, the feminist, has important things to say - most notably her work - The Second Sex would be worth reading and investigating at another time.
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