The Guardian has been running a series of pieces about Simone de Beauvoir. I\’ve sadly missed the part where they note Sartre\’s comment:
Hell is other people.
Sartre, of course, lived with Simone.
The Guardian has been running a series of pieces about Simone de Beauvoir. I\’ve sadly missed the part where they note Sartre\’s comment:
Hell is other people.
Sartre, of course, lived with Simone.
“Sartre, of course, lived with Simone”: Except that,of course, he didn’t. He lived with his mother and Simone lived in her own apartment. They had an open relationship, not a marriage or even a quasi-marriage. You don’t really know much about them, do you?
Tim adds: Clearly.
Try:
“The romantic relationship between American novelist Nelson Algren and French writer and philosopher Simone de Beauvoir. . . ”
http://literaryculture.suite101.com/article.cfm/nelson_algren_simone_de_beauvoir
Isn’t the full quote “Hell is other people at breakfast”?
Or maybe that’s PG Wodehouse’s version.