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2014
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“In the same week we have heard Sartre’s lecture, been to the opening night ofLes bouches inutiles(The Useless Mouths) and read the first issue ofLes temps modernes(Modern Times).”¹ So wrote a mildly irritated critic, according to Beauvoir inLa force des choses(Force of Circumstance). It is not difficult to understand this reaction to the “existentialist offensive” in which Beauvoir and Sartre found themselves unwittingly engaged in the autumn of 1945. Beauvoir’s second novelLe sang des autres(The Blood of Others) was published in September, followed a few weeks later by the publication of the
