How is it possible that the life of someone becomes bigger than their work?
This is the case here when people who don't know anything about Beauvoir's work have a working knowledge of her personal life and affairs. Even Sartre was not untouched by this curiosity.
Gossip is a part of social discourse but why does it over power the existence of a human being behind that gossip. It over shadows so much that a serious school of thought gets lost (not even second position) behind the scandalous stories true or otherwise.
This book also fall a bit short but can still be excused that this is a biography and not a commentary of Beauvoir's work. But still it over does it. The idea that the details which sell and which makes a person who they are are two different things but their is always a choice.
Beauvoir was not an ordinary person in her intellect and in life.
Surprisingly, her life story still sells but not her ideas.
Peace
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