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At the Existentialist Café
Sarah Bakewell, 2016
Long read, about 448 pages
Sartre, de Beauvoir, Camus and friends, as people and as thinkers.
Talk about it
- Which of these thinkers would you most like to argue with over coffee?
- Does knowing their lives, affairs and politics change how you judge their ideas?
- Is the idea that we're free, and responsible for what we make of ourselves, comforting or frightening?
Questions we wrote from what the book covers. They don’t give away the plot. How we pick. For more, try our questions for any book.