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On Les Inséparables, Simone de Beauvoir’s Unpublished Novel

Join professor and publisher Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir along with author and New Yorker  staff writer Judith Thurman and as they discuss Les Inséparables, a novel by Simone de Beauvoir written in 1954 and released for the first time this fall. In her memoir Force of Circumstance, de Beauvoir mentioned that she gave the manuscript of Les Inséparables to…

Southern Crossings: Composition and Collaboration

La Maison Française (Columbia) Buell Hall, 515 West 116th Street, New York City

To RSVP, please click here. This event is part of a series of talks organized by the Institute for Ideas and Imagination at Reid Hall in Paris and the Maison Française.  It is also co-sponsored by the Heyman Center for the Humanities and Society of Fellows. A meeting of minds? A missed encounter? In 1836, as the abolition of slavery came into…