"Mandarins" is one of the most famous novels of the 20th century, the pinnacle of Simona de Beauvoir's creativity, a well-known writer and philosopher.
The events described in the book are somehow connected with the collapse of the hopes born during the years of Resistance of the French intelligentsia. To more fully present the post-war era, the author introduces a multitude of characters into the narrative, the main ones being the left-wing writers Henri Perron and Robert Dubre (their prototypes were Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre). Although the main intrigue is the quarrel and then reconciliation of these two extraordinary personalities, an important place in the plot is also given to Anne, Dubre's wife - in this character, one can easily recognize the traits of Simone de Beauvoir herself. Much of what the writer revealed in her best work, awarded the Goncourt Prize, finds an explanation in the fate of women as such and is associated with the position of women in the modern world.
The novel, which for several decades was considered the bedside book of Western intellectuals, finally becomes the heritage of the Russian reader.
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