A Love Letter Between Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir [Letter]

On tonight's podcast, we'll be looking at a letter written by Jean-Paul Sartre to Simone de Beauvoir.

Satre was famous for popularizing existentialism, and de Beauvoir for writing -- The Second Sex -- a book that formed the philosophical underpinnings of second-wave feminism. 

While they were deeply in love, and were considered a power couple in their time, they never lived in the same place and they famously had an open relationship. 

I love this letter, because it takes all the strangeness and incongruities of their affair and packages it into a few short paragraphs. You can see at once how Satre is trying to hold her close and push her away at the same, and the cool logic he uses to do it. It's art and essay at once.

I hope you enjoy. 

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