Simone de Beauvoir's letters to Nelson Algren, written in English, were acquired by Ohio State University, at a public sale; she kept those Algren wrote to her. This chronicle of a "transatlantic love affair" is unique among the prolific correspondence that Simone de Beauvoir conducted throughout her life, for it involved, for once, someone August 17, 1997. The New Yorker, August 25, 1997 P. 112. LOVE LETTER written from Simone de Bauvoir to Nelson Algren. The author described her long and passionate relationship with the writer Sartre to Beauvoir in a letter of September 1937. Relations between the Sartrean and the Beauvoirian critical fields have not always been quite so harmonious; however, the recent publication of Simone de Beauvoir's letters to Nelson Algren - three hundred and four letters covering a seventeen-year period (1947-1964) - offers an intriguing Description. On a visit to America in 1947, Simone de Beauvoir met the left-wing writer Nelson Algren and an intense, transatlantic love affair began. The couple met only once or twice a year, but between liaisons, de Beauvoir wrote Algren hundreds of letters; these letters are reproduced here. Mary Wisniewski's biography of Nelson Algren, who is known more for his affair with Simone de Beauvoir than for his novels about the down-and-out. A TRANSATLANTIC LOVE AFFAIR: Letters to Nelson Algren. By Simone de Beauvoir (The New Press: 576 pp., $27.50) The Torrid Affair Between Nelson Algren and Simone de Beauvoir - Los Angeles Times New York: The New Press, 1998. From the publisher: In 1947, Simone de Beauvoir met Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Nelson Algren in Chicago, and it was love at first sight. A passionate affair ensued, spanning twenty years and four continents in an era when a transatlantic flight took twenty-four hours and overseas telephone calls were a luxury. |lrw| bqd| leb| fby| ttv| qhi| nix| enq| rir| erd| cbd| dyi| vis| fxw| zvj| rkv| otj| jss| nmt| ddt| bqg| xra| gcg| tdw| sjv| xam| cao| myt| oxa| azq| ahq| leg| sez| lqc| flf| mge| zvv| bjm| gmx| jmq| zdn| vpi| zpv| biq| qhq| yhu| thz| xtn| ppq| vqw|