Koop Vandaag Becoming Beauvoir – Kate Kirkpatrick

This is a woman who was also to become a philosopher, a novelist, an existentialist, and a feminist icon. Her novels won prestigious literary prizes and The Second Sex transformed the way we think about sex and gender. She was also the long-term lover of Jean-Paul Sartre, but it was to film-maker Claude Lanzmann that she wrote ‘You are my destiny, my eternity, my life …’ in letters which only came to light in 2018. Kate Kirkpatrick draws on previously unavailable diaries and letters, including those writt…