The Irish Mail on Sunday

At The Existentia­list Café

- Sarah Bakewell Vintage €12.59

Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir were two of the 20th century’s most influentia­l thinkers but they were different from other philosophe­rs in that their lives and work were inseparabl­e.

A book about existentia­lism may sound insufferab­ly dry but Bakewell writes with wit and verve and explains complex ideas with a light touch. Simon Shaw

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