National Book Award-winning biographer Deirdre Bair explores her fifteen remarkable years in Paris with Samuel Beckett and Simone de Beauvoir, painting intimate new portraits of two literary giants and revealing secrets of the biographical art. In 1971 Deirdre Bair was a journalist and recently minted ...
Perhaps no other city has so many resonances, on so many levels, as Paris, which has fragmented socially, sexually, intellectually and linguistically into many fields. Using literary analysis, film, social and gender theory, and perspectives on urbanism, this book examines some of them.
