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BEAUVOIR Simone de (1908-1986).
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BEAUVOIR Simone de (1908-1986).
2 L.A.S. "Your charming beaver", [Spain July 13-14 and 30, 1954], to Jean-Paul SARTRE| 6 pages in-4 and 2 pages oblong in-8, and 5 1/2 pages in-4, envelopes.
Letters to Sartre during a trip to Spain.
[From July 9 to August 12, 1954, Simone de Beauvoir travelled with
Jacques Lanzmann to Spain, while Sartre rested in Italy with
Italy with Michelle Vian, after a health accident].
Tuesday [13] and Wednesday 14. She tells "Dear Little You" (evoking memories of previous stays with Sartre) about the trip, which began with the Tarn gorges, then Perpignan,
Cadaquès, Figueras, Gerona: "we visited the cathedral, which is superb, with a huge single nave at the end of a monumental staircase. We even listened a little to the mass, said by five priests and sung by ten others. Small cloisters, small churches, beautiful squares, beautiful ramparts, Girona is a real marvel"...
Then there's Barcelona: the bustling Ramblas, the Barrio Chino
Chino, cabarets in the evening. "This morning, L. is working while I write to you. [...] It's hard to find the time to work, but we're getting there"... The cheerful impression dissipates after a visit to "miserable neighborhoods"... "The paradox is that what's pleasant about
Barcelona comes from the fact that the people are so nice - but it seems all the more disgusting that they are allowed to live in such filth"... Dinner at Tibidabo "at the rich people's, in an illuminated garden, and we had great fun watching them"... She advises the "dear little you" to rest well. "I think of you all the time, but I no longer have nightmares, and I hope I'm right"... (On the back of the envelope addressed to Rome, Sartre's notes and signature).
Friday [30]. She is in Seville (Sartre in Capri): "it's always enchanting to be in Spain". Before leaving Granada, they stop at the place "where Boabdil last looked at Granada and wept". They spend two days working in "a room on a small deserted beach" near Malaga, attending a bull run at La Linea near "Gil Braltar". Then it's on to
Tarifa, Cadiz, Ronda, before arriving in Seville: "The Alcazar is not worth a visit, but the Cathedral is beautiful, especially the Giralda. But what really counts are the streets. In the Alameda, "the bars are full of whores, monstrous or charming, very miserable, with flowers in their hair"| a little girl takes them to a dance hall: "Then she begged me to take her to Paris as a maid"... Etc.
2 L.A.S. "Your charming beaver", [Spain July 13-14 and 30, 1954], to Jean-Paul SARTRE| 6 pages in-4 and 2 pages oblong in-8, and 5 1/2 pages in-4, envelopes.
Letters to Sartre during a trip to Spain.
[From July 9 to August 12, 1954, Simone de Beauvoir travelled with
Jacques Lanzmann to Spain, while Sartre rested in Italy with
Italy with Michelle Vian, after a health accident].
Tuesday [13] and Wednesday 14. She tells "Dear Little You" (evoking memories of previous stays with Sartre) about the trip, which began with the Tarn gorges, then Perpignan,
Cadaquès, Figueras, Gerona: "we visited the cathedral, which is superb, with a huge single nave at the end of a monumental staircase. We even listened a little to the mass, said by five priests and sung by ten others. Small cloisters, small churches, beautiful squares, beautiful ramparts, Girona is a real marvel"...
Then there's Barcelona: the bustling Ramblas, the Barrio Chino
Chino, cabarets in the evening. "This morning, L. is working while I write to you. [...] It's hard to find the time to work, but we're getting there"... The cheerful impression dissipates after a visit to "miserable neighborhoods"... "The paradox is that what's pleasant about
Barcelona comes from the fact that the people are so nice - but it seems all the more disgusting that they are allowed to live in such filth"... Dinner at Tibidabo "at the rich people's, in an illuminated garden, and we had great fun watching them"... She advises the "dear little you" to rest well. "I think of you all the time, but I no longer have nightmares, and I hope I'm right"... (On the back of the envelope addressed to Rome, Sartre's notes and signature).
Friday [30]. She is in Seville (Sartre in Capri): "it's always enchanting to be in Spain". Before leaving Granada, they stop at the place "where Boabdil last looked at Granada and wept". They spend two days working in "a room on a small deserted beach" near Malaga, attending a bull run at La Linea near "Gil Braltar". Then it's on to
Tarifa, Cadiz, Ronda, before arriving in Seville: "The Alcazar is not worth a visit, but the Cathedral is beautiful, especially the Giralda. But what really counts are the streets. In the Alameda, "the bars are full of whores, monstrous or charming, very miserable, with flowers in their hair"| a little girl takes them to a dance hall: "Then she begged me to take her to Paris as a maid"... Etc.