At The Existentialist Café

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<p><b>Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize</b></p><p><b>Paris, near the turn of 1932-3.</b>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</p><p>Its not often that you miss your bus stop because youre 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 doesnt win awards, I will eat my copy<i>Independent on Sunday</i></p><p>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<i>Daily Telegraph</i></p><p>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<i>Mail on Sunday</i></p>

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Sarah Bakewell was a teenage existentialist, having been swept off her feet by reading Sartre's<i>Nausea</i>, aged 16. She is the author of three biographies, including the bestselling<i>How to Live: A Life of Montaigne</i>, which won the Duff Cooper Prize for Non-Fiction and the National Books Critics Circle Award for Biography in the US, and was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award and the Marsh Biography Award.

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