Volume 4, Number 8 · May 20, 1965
A Long Engagement
By Conor Cruise O'Brien
Force of Circumstance
by Simone de Beauvoir, translated by Richard Howard
Putnam, 658 pp., $10.00
It is a triangular affair: Sartre, Beauvoir, History. The second is in love with the first; the first with the third; the third not at all. Force of Circumstance, the third long volume of Simone de Beauvoir's huge autobiography is the story of the saddest and most ironic phase of this relationship: from the liberation of France to the liberation of Algeria. The first chapter begins with the words, 'We were liberated. In the streets the children were singing:
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