Modern Mind

216–219 and 226–231; see also sleeve notes, pages 3–4, by Fabian Watkinson to: ‘Messaien, Turangalîla-Symphonie’, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Decca, 1992.
    42. See Olivier Todd,
Albert Camus: Une Vie,
Paris: Gallimard, 1996, pages 296ff, for the writing of
The Myth of Sisyphus
and Camus’ philosophy of the absurd. For the Paris art market after World War II, see: Raymonde Moulin,
The French Art Market: A Sociological View,
New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1987; an abridged translation by Arthur Goldhammer of
Le Marche de la peinture en France,
Paris: Éditions de Minuit, 1967.
    43. See: Albert Camus,
Carnets 1942–1951,
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1966,
circa
page 53 for his notebook-thoughts on Tarrou and the symbolic effects of the plague.
    44. Simone de Beauvoir,
La Force des Choses,
Paris: Gallimard, 1960, page 29, quoted in Beevor and Cooper, Op.
cit.,
page 206.
    45. Kate Millett,
Sexual Politics,
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1971, page 346.
    46. Ironically, Mettray, the prison Genet served in, was an agricultural colony and, according to Genet’s biographer, ‘the place looked at once deceptively pastoral (no walls surrounded it and the long lane leading to it was lined with tall trees) and ominously well organised …’ Edmund White,
Genet,
London: Chatto & Windus, 1993, page 68.
    47. Genet fought hard to ensure that black actors were always employed. See White, Op.
cit.,
pages 502–503, for his tussle in Poland.
    48. Andrew K. Kennedy,
Samuel Beckett,
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989, pages 4–5.
    49.
James Knowlson, Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett, London: Bloomsbury, 1996, page 54.
    50. Kennedy, Op.
cit.,
page 8.
    51. Knowlson, Op.
cit.,
page 175.
    52. Beevor and Cooper, Op.
cit.,
page 173.
    53. Kennedy, Op.
cit.,
pages 6, 7, 9 and 11.
    54. Knowlson,
Op. cit.,
page 387.
    55. Kennedy,
Op. cit.,
page 24.
    56.
Ibid.,
page 42.
    57.
Godot
has always proved popular with prisoners – in Germany, the USA, and elsewhere. See: Knowlson,
Op. cit.,
pages 409ff, for a discussion.
    58. See Kennedy, Op.
cit.,
page 30, for a discussion.
    59.
Ibid.,
pages 33–34 and 40–41.
    60. Claude Bonnefoy,
Conversations with Eugène Ionescu,
London: Faber & Faber, 1970, page 65.
    61.
Ibid.,
page 82.
    62. See Eugène Ionescu,
Present Past, Past Present: A Personal Memoir,
London, Calder & Boyars, 1972, translator Helen R. Lane, page 139, for Ionescu’s thoughts on ‘the end of the individual.’
    63. Bonnefoy, Op.
cit.,
pages 167–168.

CHAPTER 24: DAUGHTERS AND LOVERS
    1. See the letter, written in early 1944, where he is competing with Camus for a young woman. Simone de Beauvoir (editor),
Quiet Moments in a War: The Letters of Jean-Paul Sartre to Simone de Beauvoir, 1940–1963,
London: Hamish Hamilton, translators Lee Fahnestock and Norman MacAfee, 1994. page 263. And, in Simone de Beauvoir,
Adieu: A Farewell to Sartre,
London: André Deutsch and Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1984, she made a dignified and moving tribute.
    2. Claude Francis and Fernande Gontier,
Simone de Beauvoir,
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1987, page 207.
    3.
Ibid.,
page 235.
    4. Deidre Bair,
Simone de Beauvoir,
London: Jonathan Cape, 1990, pages 325, 379–80.
    5. Bair,
Op. cit.,
page 379.
    6. Bair, Op.
cit.,
page 380.
    7. See the discussions in Bair, Op.
cit.,
page 383, chapter 40.
    8. See Francis and Gontier, Op.
cit.,
page 251, for its reception in France; and page 253 for its being placed on the Index.
    9. Bair, Op.
cit.,
page 387. And see: Toril Moi,
Simone de Beauvoir: The Making of an Intellectual Woman,
Oxford: Blackwell, 1994, pages 155ff for a psychoanalytic approach to
The Second Sex.
    10. It was translated into sixteen languages: Francis and Gontier,
Op. cit.,
page 254.
    11. Bair, Op.
cit.,
pages 432–433.
    12.
Ibid.,
page 438.
    13. Brendan Gill, ‘No More Eve’,
New Yorker,
volume XXIX, Number 2, February 28, 1953, pages 97–99, quoted in Bair, Op.
cit.,
page 439.
    14. Bair,
Op. cit.,
page 432.
    15. He saw himself as ‘a second Darwin’: James H. Jones,
Alfred C. Kinsey: A Public/Private Life,
New York: W. W. Norton, 1997, pages 25ff.
    16.
John Heidenry, What Wild Ecstasy: The Rise and Fall of the Sexual Revolution, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997, page 21.
    17. John D’Emilio and Estelle B. Freedman,
Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America,
New York: Harper & Row, 1988, page 285.
    18.
Ibid.,
page 285.
    19.
Ibid.
    20.
Ibid.,
page 286.
    21.
Ibid.
    22. Heidenry,