My love story with Sartre: The last days, by: Simone de Beauvoir

Everyone considered Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre the intellectual power of the twentieth century. Some called Sartre the father of existentialism, but perhaps it is more accurate to call him the generalizer of philosophical movements. And when Simone de Beauvoir wrote the book "The Other Sex" in 1949, she laid the intellectual foundation for the second wave of feminism that exploded during the sixties. Simone describes in this book the last ten years of Sartre's life, without hiding from the reader the most detailed aspects of his daily, cultural, and intellectual life, his illness, and then his death. One may enjoy or not enjoy this frank documentation of Sartre's last days, but one cannot help but admire her bravery, honesty, and loyalty to her convictions and to Sartre as well. After his death on April 15, 1980, she said: "His death separated us, and my death will not bring us together. That is life."