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High life

Why Simone de Beauvoir is my kind of woman

19 October 2019

9:00 AM

19 October 2019

9:00 AM

New York

 
A strange thing happened to me here in the Bagel last week. Having read the recent review of a biography of Susan Sontag in these here pages, my plan was to compare her with another feminist, Simone de Beauvoir (I have just finished an opus about Beauvoir, Paris and the Left Bank après la guerre).

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