
At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails
Sarah Bakewell
At the Existentialist Café was 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.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Random House
- Year
- 2016
- ISBN-13
- 9781473545328
- Genre
- Biography & Memoir
- Topics
- Existentialism20th-century philosophySartre and Beauvoir
Awards
- Kirkus Prize for NonfictionShortlisted(2016)
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