Tete-a-Tete (54 page)

11
.
S de B to S, February 28, 1947. Unfortunately, nothing came of it.

12
.
Ivan Moffat to S de B, March 19, 1947, Sylvie le Bon de Beauvoir private archives.

13
.
Bair,
Simone de Beauvoir,
pp. 377–78.

14
.
Daily Princetonian,
April 22–24, 1947, quoted in Claude Francis et Fernande Gontier,
Les Ecrits de Simone de Beauvoir, Textes inédits ou retrouvés
(Paris: Gallimard, 1979), p. 147.

15
.
The book was retranslated by Carol Cosman and reprinted by the University of California Press in 1999, with a foreword by Douglas Brinkley.

16
.
ADD,
pp. 330–34.

17
.
S de B to S, April 14, 1947.

18
.
S to S de B, undated [May] 1947, in
Quiet Moments,
p. 279.

19
.
The Mandarins,
pp. 332–33.

20
.
Ibid., p. 351.

21
.
S de B to NA, May 17, 1947, in Sara Holloway, Vanessa Kling, Kate LeBlanc, and Ellen Gordon Reeves,
A Transatlantic Love Affair
[hereafter
TLA
], notes and translations by Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir, (New York: New Press, 1997), p. 15.

22
.
S de B to NA, June 4, 1947.

23
.
S de B to NA, July 3, 1947.

24
.
FC,
p. 142.

25
.
When Beauvoir was back in Chicago in the summer of 1950, Algren's friend Art Shay, the well-known Chicago photographer, drove her to a friend's apartment for a bath. She left the bathroom door slightly open, and Shay could not resist the temptation to poke his Leica into the opening. He captured her naked back as she stood in front of the bathroom mirror, pinning up her hair. When she heard the click of his camera, she smiled. “Naughty man,” she said. He drove her home, and since Algren was not yet back from playing poker, they sat in the car and had a long conversation about literature, friendship, and fidelity. (Gérard Bonal and Malka Ribowska,
Simone de Beauvoir
[Paris, Seuil/Jazz, 2001], p. 86) and
B & W
magazine, no. 35, February 2005, p. 67.

26
.
FC,
p. 171.

27
.
My interview with Sally Swing Shelley, New York, October 15, 2002.

28
.
S de B to NA, February 6, 1948.

29
.
S de B to NA, April 4, 1948.

30
.
“First Call to International Opinion,” November 1947,
The Writings of Jean-Paul Sartre,
vol. 1, compiled by Michel Contat and Michel Rybalka, trans. Richard C. McCleary (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1974), p. 205.

31
.
S de B to NA, April 8, 1948. Sylvie le Bon omitted this letter from the published volume. Deirdre Bair quotes it in
Simonede Beauvoir,
p. 373.

32
.
S to S de B, May 18, 1948, in
Quiet Moments,
p. 283.

33
.
FC,
p. 170.

34
.
Ibid., p. 173.

35
.
Beauvoir writes: “During the whole of the month they spent touring the south of France together, he held this piece of capricious coercion against her, he had exchanged his guilt for resentment; it was, for him, a good bargain” (
FC,
p. 172).

36
.
S de B to NA, July 26, 1948.

37
.
Sylvie Le Bon, as editor of the collection, quotes Algren's letter in
TLA,
p. 241.

38
.
S de B to NA, December 3, 1948.

39
.
S de B to NA, November 1, 1948.

40
.
Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir, “Avant-propos,”
Correspondance croisée 1937–1940: Simone de Beauvoir et Jacques-Laurent Bost
(Paris: Gallimard, 2004), p. 12.

41
.
Beauvoir was inspired by Gunnar Myrdal's book
An American Dilemma,
about the experience of being a Negro in America. Myrdal discusses the mythology of “white” and “black” in similar ways.

42
.
My interview with Michelle Vian, Apt, south of France, July 11–12, 2002. She told the same story to Michel Rybalka in July 1985.

43
.
People say that Carole closely resembled André Reweliotty.

44
.
FC,
p. 197.

45
.
Ibid., p. 200–202.

46
.
S de B to S, July 1950.

47
.
My interview with Michelle Vian, October 12–14, 2003.

48
.
My interview with Michelle Vian, July 11 and 12, 2002.

49
.
S to Michelle Vian, December 1949, Michelle Vian private archives.

50
.
Michel Rybalka interview with Michelle Vian, Michel Rybalka private archives, July 3–7, 1985.

51
.
Michel Rybalka interview with Michelle Vian, Rybalka archives, July 3–7 1985.

52
.
FC,
p. 229.

53
.
S de B to NA, May 3, 1950.

54
.
S de B to NA, May 3, 1950.

55
.
Michel Rybalka interview with Michelle Vian, July 3–7 1985.

56
.
Both books were published by Paul Morihien. Beauvoir's
America Day by Day
was republished by Gallimard in 1954.

57
.
Bost to S de B, August 5, 1950, Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir archives.

58
.
S de B to S, July 1950.

59
.
FC,
p. 237.

CHAPTER NINE: CRYSTAL BLUE EYES

1
.
Jean Cocteau,
Journal: Le Passé défini
(Paris: Gallimard, 1984), p. 302. (Annie Cohen-Solal quotes this in
Sartre,
p. 316.)

2
.
La Reine Albemarle ou le dernier touriste
(Paris: Gallimard, 1991). The book has not been translated into English.

3
.
Jean Cau,
Croquis de mémoire
(Paris: Julliard, 1985), p. 237. (My trans.)

4
.
My interview with Michelle Vian, Apt, July 11 and 12, 2002.

5
.
Michel Rybalka interview with Michelle Vian, July 3–7, 1985.

6
.
Adieux,
p. 167.

7
.
Quoted by Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir in
TLA,
p. 434.

8
.
S de B to NA, October 30, 1951.

9
.
S de B to NA, November 9, 1951.

10
.
S de B to NA, January 9, 1952.

11
.
FC,
p. 291.

12
.
S de B to NA, March 4, 1952.

13
.
The Second Sex
[hereafter
SS
], trans. H.M. Parshley (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953), p. 575.

14
.
FC,
p. 269. (Trans. modified.)

15
.
Sartre, “Merleau-Ponty Alive,”
Situations
(New York: George Braziller, 1965). Trans. Benita Eisler and Maria Jolas.

16
.
FC,
p. 274.

17
.
FC,
p. 264.

18
.
Ibid., p. 291. (Trans. modified.)

19
.
Ibid., p. 292.

20
.
Ibid., p. 302.

21
.
“Reply to Albert Camus,”
Les Temps modernes,
August 1952, reprinted in
Situations,
pp. 71–72.

22
.
Ronald Aronson,
Camus and Sartre
(Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2004), p. 159.

23
.
FC,
p. 272.

24
.
Claude Lanzmann to S de B, August 18, 1952, Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir archives.

25
.
FC,
p. 294. Jacques Lanzmann is convinced that Beauvoir and Claude Lanzmann had a strong sexual relationship. He traveled with them to Spain in 1954, he says, and heard loud lovemaking in the next room. “I thought Beauvoir a beautiful woman, beautiful and icy. In bed, I think she was the opposite.” My interview with Jacques Lanzmann, Paris, April 22, 2004.

26
.
S de B to NA, December 9, 1952.

27
.
My interview with Claude Lanzmann, Cap-Ferret, July 20, 2002.

28
.
Alice Schwarzer interview with Sartre and Beauvoir, Rome, summer 1972. Schwarzer,
After the Second Sex: Conversations with Simone de Beauvoir,
trans. Marianne Howarth New York: Pantheon, 1984), p. 59.

29
.
Gerassi interview with Sartre, March 12, 1971.

30
.
The Bost-Olga correspondence is in Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir's private archives.

31
.
FC,
p. 296.

32
.
Ibid., pp. 295–97.

33
.
My interview with Claude Lanzmann, July 20, 2002. See also: “Sartre et la génération des années 40,” Interview with Claude Lanzmann by Jacques Sabbath and Reine Silbert,
L'Arche,
26 Sept.–25 Oct., 1971.

34
.
The details in this paragraph come from Paulette de Boully's preface to a book of Monny de Boully's writing, published posthumously: Monny de Boully,
Au-delà de la mémoire
(Bucharest, Romania: Samuel Tastet, 1991).

35
.
My interview with Olivier Todd, Paris, July 31, 2002.

36
.
Serge Rezvani,
Le Testament amoureux
(Paris: Stock, 1981), pp. 100–101. Claude Lanzmann tried to stop the publication of this book. There were legal proceedings. In the end, the publisher suppressed short passages, leaving blank spaces where there had previously been text. Rezvani let me see the original.

37
.
FC,
p. 295.

38
.
Rezvani,
Le Testament amoureux,
pp. 254–55.

39
.
Jacques Lanzmann,
Le Voleur de hasards
(Paris: Jean-Claude Lattès, 1992).

40
.
My interview with Jacques Lanzmann, Paris, April 22, 2004.

41
.
My interview with Olivier Todd, July 31, 2002. Jacques Lanzmann and Judith Magre also told me about this bet.

42
.
My interview with Judith Magre, Paris, May 7, 2004.

43
.
“Entretien avec Claude Lanzmann,”
Les Temps modernes,
special issue on Sartre, Oct.–Dec. 1990.

44
.
My interview with Claude Lanzmann, July 20, 2002.

45
.
“Entretien avec Claude Lanzmann.”

46
.
S de B to NA, February 15, 1954.

47
.
FC,
p. 304.

48
.
Ibid., p. 309.

49
.
Jacques Lanzmann,
Le Voleur de hasards,
p. 49.

50
.
FC,
p. 334.

51
.
My interview with Claude Lanzmann, July 20, 2002.

52
.
In fact, he said this of Evelyne a little later, in the spring of 1956, when she acted in another production, directed by Michel Vitold (
Le Monde,
March 31, 1956).

53
.
John Gerassi interview with Beauvoir, Jan. 30, 1973.

54
.
My interview with Jacques Lanzmann, April 22, 2004.

55
.
In
Le Testament amoureux,
Rezvani describes in harrowing terms their marriage and Evelyne's psychological fragility.