At the existentialist café : freedom, being, and apricot cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Karl Jaspers, Edmund Husserl, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and others

Existentialist café

An age of fiction : the French novel from Gide to Camus

The masters: André Gide: in search of the novel -- Marcel Proust: in search of lost time -- Brave new world: Georges Duhamel and Jules Romain: "men of good will" -- Roger Martin de Gard: "the Corneille of the bourgeois novel" -- Louis Aragon's "real world" -- Marcel Aymé: epilogue -- Private worlds: Julien Green -- Henri Bosco -- Jean Giono -- François Mauriac -- Georges Bernanos -- Escapes and escapades: The surrealist anti-novel -- Jean Cocteau: a modern Daedalus -- Jean Giraudoux's elusive Garden of Eden -- Louis-Ferdinand Céline: Ulysses again -- Raymond Queneau: the Sunday of life -- Return to man: André Malraux: maker of myths -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: knight-errant -- Jean-Paul Sartre: the search for identity -- Albert Camus: the two sides of the coin -- An end and some beginnings.