At the Existentialist Cafe

Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize Paris, near the turn of 1932-3. Three young friends meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse. They are Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and their friend Raymond Aron, who opens their eyes to a radical new way of thinking...'It's not often that you miss your bus stop because you're so engrossed in reading a book about existentialism, but I did exactly that... The story of Sartre, Beauvoir, Camus, Heidegger et al is strange, fun and compelling reading. If it doesn't win awards, I will eat my copy' Independent on Sunday'Bakewell shows how fascinating were some of the existentialists' ideas and how fascinating, often frightful, were their lives. Vivid, humorous anecdotes are interwoven with a lucid and unpatronising exposition of their complex philosophy... Tender, incisive and fair' Daily Telegraph'Quirky, funny, clear and passionate... Few writers are as good as Bakewell at explaining complicated ideas in a way that makes them easy to understand' Mail on Sunday

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Bakewell
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.03.2017
• EAN: 9780099554882
• ISBN: 978-0-09-955488-2
• No. of pages: 448
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 28 mm
• Series: 171 POCHE
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Philosophers, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology, Western philosophy from c 1800, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -, Phenomenology and Existentialism