The French feminist icon Simone de Beauvoir’s “mad passion” for a lover
18 years her junior has been revealed in a letter published for the
first time. The letter also shows that she was never sexually satisfied by her partner, the existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre.
The writer, who condemned marriage as an “obscene” institution that
enslaved women in her classic book The Second Sex, wrote to the
film-maker Claude Lanzmann in 1953 saying she would throw herself into
his “arms and I will stay there forever. I am your wife forever.” In De Beauvoir’s letter from Amsterdam published by Le Monde, she
wrote: “My darling child, you are my first absolute love, the one that
only happens once (in life) or maybe never. “I thought I would never say the words that now come naturally to me
when I see you – I adore you. I adore you with all my body and soul ...
You are my destiny, my eternity, my life.” The note is one of 112 love letters written to Lanzmann, the only man
De Beauvoir ever lived with, which has been bought by Yale University. ... [mehr] https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jan/22/simone-de-beauvoirs-mad-passion-for-young-lover-revealed-in-letters
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