At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails by Sarah Bakewell

At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails

Sarah Bakewell

327 pages first pub 2016 (editions)

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Paris, near the turn of 1933. 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 ...

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inspiring: 47%

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emotional: 7%

adventurous: 6%

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lighthearted: 4%

dark: 3%

mysterious: 2%

tense: 2%


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