The decline and fall of existentialism

Colin Wilson

pp. 135-153

in: Ceri Crossley, Ian Small (eds), Studies in Anglo-French cultural relations, Berlin, Springer, 1988

Abstract

In his biography of Camus, Herbert Lottman tells an amusing story of how Camus, Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir spent a drunken evening in various bistros on the Left Bank. As the dawn was breaking, Sartre and Camus walked back across a bridge over the Seine, and Sartre commented, "To think that in a few hours I'm going to talk about the writer's responsibility [at the Sorbonne].'¹

Cited authors

Sartre Jean-Paul

de Beauvoir Simone