Bloed van anderen

by Simone De Beauvoir

Paper Book, 1980

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Publication

Bussum Agathon 1980

ISBN

9026950632 / 9789026950636

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Description

"Jean Blomart, privileged bourgeois turned fighter against the Nazi Occupation, is waiting through the endless night for his lover Helene to die. Flashbacks interweave the stories of their lives and their tortuous relationship until, with dawn approaching, Jean faces a monumental decision." "The Blood of Others, written during the Occupation and published in 1945, portrays the agony of defeat and resistance in wartime France, and the inner awakening of a man impelled by anger and obsessed with guilt. It remains Simone de Beauvoir's most gripping and human dramatization of the existentialist's dilemma, examining the nature of love, fate and personal freedom, and asking the question: how much responsibility can one truly have for the lives of others?"--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved… (more)

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The adventures of a couple during the late 1930's and the War in France. The style is spare and direct, a virtue in my eyes as I was dealing with it as a second language experience. the characters seem a little flat but all in all, it is a tidy book, and well steeped in the existential philosophy
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of its time. I read a library copy of this 1946 work.
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Original publication date

1945 (Original French)
1948 (English Translation)
1964 (Penguin edition)
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