Adieux: A Farewell to Sartre

I liked that this book brought you in the mind of Sartre, but I disliked the outline of the book and how it was written.

Loved the intimate insight into a man with a great mind written by the woman who loved him most of his life

It was just what I expected ♡The book looks new and I am really happy with what I got

Good book

Simone De Beauvoir was one hell of a woman. She and Sartre were the idols of my young adulthood and both still have an influence on my thinking. Anyone who has watched a loved one in physical decline will be able to relate to what she writes. De Beauvoir is not one for denial she gives us her version of the grim truth in detail. This is a brave and powerful book. I wish they were both still alive.

Then you need to read this book. It is Simone de Beauvoir's first-person account of the last ten years of Sartre's life, and it is heartbreaking to read in several places. Her descriptions in particular of his final few days are wrenching, and I did actually cry as she described Sartre's death. The prose is characteristic of de Beauvoir: deeply and intimately detailed, meticulous, and dense in some places. But the reading is ultimately rewarding as it gives the reader an even more thorough understanding of the devoted side of de Beauvoir--and the very human and mortal side of the great philosopher Sartre.