She Came to Stay - Simone de Beauvoir

She Came to Stay is a novel written in 1943 by the French feminist and philosopher, Simone de Beauvoir. Based on her relationship with the existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre, the book is hard going by most standards, exploring jealousy; the most basic of human emotions, and pushing the definition of personal freedom to the limits of acceptability. As a 19 year old studying Camus for A level, I became infatuated with the lifestyle of French existentialists such as Camus, Sartre and de Beauvoir, and started to read all of their works, becoming more and more interested in the way they lived their lives and followed their own philosophy. This novel encapsulates it ...  Read the complete review