At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails
#2827 of 3,809 books · #1023 in Biography & Memoir
Shortlisted for the Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction (2016).
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.
- Publisher
- Random House
- ISBN-13
- 9781473545328
- Genre
- Topics
- Existentialism20th-century philosophySartre and Beauvoir
Awards
- Kirkus Prize for NonfictionShortlisted(2016)
Other awarded books from Sarah Bakewell
- How To Live, Or A Life Of Montaigne (2011)1 win · 12 score
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