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Simone de Beauvoir: A Biography.
Force of circumstance: [the autobiography of Simone de Beauvoir] pages ; 24 cm Translation of: La force des choses....
In this rare documentary, Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) and Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986), two of the most influential and controversial writers and thinkers of the 20th century, intimately discuss their work, their lives, and the role of public intellectuals in modern society.
They were interviewed for this 1967 French Canadian TV program by Canadian journalist Madeleine Gobeil and Les Temps Modernes editor Claude Lanzmann (who later produced Shoah, the epic documentary on the Holocaust).
Filmed in his Montparnasse apartment, Sartre discusses his reasons for refusing the Nobel Prize in Literature, his response to public criticism, the reasons for his opposition to the Vietnam War, his role as Chairman of the Bertrand Russell War Crimes Tribunal, and the seeming contradiction between such political involvements and his then-current literary project on Flaubert.
Simone de Beauvoir, displays travel souvenirs that line her museum-like apartment, then takes us onto the Paris stree