Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and Me: A Memoir
ISBN-13:
9780385542456
ISBN-10:
0385542453
Author:
Deirdre Bair
Publication date:
2019
Publisher:
Nan A. Talese
Format:
Hardcover
368 pages
Category:
Authors
,
Arts & Literature
,
Women
,
Specific Groups
FREE US shipping
on ALL non-marketplace orders
Marketplace
from $2.33
USD
Marketplace offers
Seller
Condition
Note
Seller
Condition
Used - Good
Book details
ISBN-13:
9780385542456
ISBN-10:
0385542453
Author:
Deirdre Bair
Publication date:
2019
Publisher:
Nan A. Talese
Format:
Hardcover
368 pages
Category:
Authors
,
Arts & Literature
,
Women
,
Specific Groups
Summary
Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and Me: A Memoir (ISBN-13: 9780385542456 and ISBN-10: 0385542453), written by authors
Deirdre Bair, was published by Nan A. Talese in 2019.
With an overall rating of 4.1 stars, it's a notable title among other
Authors
(Arts & Literature, Women, Specific Groups) books. You can easily purchase or rent Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and Me: A Memoir (Hardcover) from BooksRun,
along with many other new and used
Authors
books
and textbooks.
And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.41.
Description
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year
National Book Award-winning biographer Deirdre Bair explores her fifteen remarkable years in Paris with Samuel Beckett and Simone de Beauvoir, painting intimate new portraits of two literary giants and revealing secrets of the biographical art.
In 1971 Deirdre Bair was a journalist and a recently minted Ph.D. who managed to secure access to Nobel Prize-winning author Samuel Beckett. He agreed that she could be his biographer despite her never having written a biography before. The next seven years of probing conversations, intercontinental research, singular encounters with Beckett's friends, and peculiar cat-and-mouse games resulted in Samuel Beckett: A Biography, which went on to win the National Book Award and propel Bair to her next subject: Simone de Beauvoir.
Where Beckett had been retiring and elusive, Beauvoir was domineering and all encompassing. Plus, there was a catch: Beauvoir and Beckett despised each other--and lived in the same neighborhood. Bair, who resorted to dodging one subject or the other by hiding out in the great cafés of Paris, learned that what works in terms of process for one biography rarely applies to the next. Her seven-year relationship with the forceful and difficult Beauvoir required a radical change in approach and yielded another groundbreaking literary profile while also awakening Bair to an era of burgeoning feminist consciousness.
Drawing on Bair's extensive notes from the period, including never-before-told anecdotes and details considered impossible to publish at the time, Parisian Lives gives us an entirely new perspective on the all-too-human side of these legendary thinkers. It is also a warmly personal reflection on the writing life--its compromises, its joys, and its rewards.
National Book Award-winning biographer Deirdre Bair explores her fifteen remarkable years in Paris with Samuel Beckett and Simone de Beauvoir, painting intimate new portraits of two literary giants and revealing secrets of the biographical art.
In 1971 Deirdre Bair was a journalist and a recently minted Ph.D. who managed to secure access to Nobel Prize-winning author Samuel Beckett. He agreed that she could be his biographer despite her never having written a biography before. The next seven years of probing conversations, intercontinental research, singular encounters with Beckett's friends, and peculiar cat-and-mouse games resulted in Samuel Beckett: A Biography, which went on to win the National Book Award and propel Bair to her next subject: Simone de Beauvoir.
Where Beckett had been retiring and elusive, Beauvoir was domineering and all encompassing. Plus, there was a catch: Beauvoir and Beckett despised each other--and lived in the same neighborhood. Bair, who resorted to dodging one subject or the other by hiding out in the great cafés of Paris, learned that what works in terms of process for one biography rarely applies to the next. Her seven-year relationship with the forceful and difficult Beauvoir required a radical change in approach and yielded another groundbreaking literary profile while also awakening Bair to an era of burgeoning feminist consciousness.
Drawing on Bair's extensive notes from the period, including never-before-told anecdotes and details considered impossible to publish at the time, Parisian Lives gives us an entirely new perspective on the all-too-human side of these legendary thinkers. It is also a warmly personal reflection on the writing life--its compromises, its joys, and its rewards.
We would LOVE it if you could help us and other readers by reviewing the book
Book review
Congratulations! We have received your book review.
{user}
{createdAt}
by {truncated_author}