Adieux: A Farewell to Sartre

Simone de Beauvoir’s account of the last ten years of Jean-Paul Sartre’s life provides a focus for understanding one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century. But the book, consisting of both a year-by-year account of Sartre’s last decade and a conversation between him and de Beauvoir about his life and work, is more than just a philosophical examination. It is also a personal dialogue of astonishing frankness that illuminates one of the most famous and complex relationships of the twentieth century.


Translated by Patrick O'Brian

• The Second Sex
• The Woman Destroyed (Pantheon Modern Writers)
• Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter (Perennial Classics)
• She Came to Stay
• Hard Times: Force of Circumstance, Volume II: 1952-1962 (The Autobiography of Simone de Beauvoir)
• The Ethics of Ambiguity
• A Very Easy Death (Pantheon Modern Writers Series)
• Letters to Sartre
• Being and Nothingness