The Resource Parisian lives : Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and me : a memoir, Deirdre Bair
Parisian lives : Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and me : a memoir, Deirdre Bair
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- Summary
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- "National Book Award-winning biographer Deirdre Bair explores her fifteen remarkable years in Paris with Samuel Beckett and Simone de Beauvoir, painting intimate new portraits of two literary giants and revealing secrets of the biographical art. In 1971 Deirdre Bair was a journalist and recently minted Ph.D. who managed to secure access to Nobel Prize-winning author Samuel Beckett. He agreed that she could write his biography despite never having written--or even read--a biography herself. The next seven years of intimate conversations, intercontinental research, and peculiar cat-and-mouse games resulted in Samuel Beckett: A Biography, which went on to win the National Book Award and propel Deirdre to her next subject: Simone de Beauvoir. The catch? De Beauvoir and Beckett despised each other--and lived essentially on the same street. While quite literally dodging one subject or the other, and sometimes hiding out in the backrooms of the great cafes of Paris, Bair learned that what works in terms of process for one biography rarely applies to the next. Her seven-year relationship with the domineering and difficult de Beauvoir required a radical change in approach, yielding another groundbreaking literary profile. Drawing on Bair's extensive notes from the period, including never-before-told anecdotes and details that were considered impossible to publish at the time, Parisian Lives is full of personality and warmth and give us an entirely new window on the all-too-human side of these legendary thinkers"--
- "A memoir of the author's experience writing biographies of Samuel Beckett and Simone de Beauvoir"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- [368] pages
- Isbn
- 9780385542456
- Label
- Parisian lives : Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and me : a memoir
- Title
- Parisian lives
- Title remainder
- Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and me : a memoir
- Statement of responsibility
- Deirdre Bair
- Title variation
- Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and me : a memoir
- Subject
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- Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography
- Autobiography -- Women authors
- Autobiography -- Women authors
- Bair, Deirdre
- Bair, Deirdre
- Beauvoir, Simone de, 1908-1986
- Beauvoir, Simone de, 1908-1986 -- Psychology
- Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989
- 1900-1999
- Biographies
- Biography as a literary form
- Biography as a literary form
- Psychology
- Women authors, American
- Women authors, American -- Biography
- Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 -- Psychology
- Authors, American
- Language
- eng
- Summary
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- "National Book Award-winning biographer Deirdre Bair explores her fifteen remarkable years in Paris with Samuel Beckett and Simone de Beauvoir, painting intimate new portraits of two literary giants and revealing secrets of the biographical art. In 1971 Deirdre Bair was a journalist and recently minted Ph.D. who managed to secure access to Nobel Prize-winning author Samuel Beckett. He agreed that she could write his biography despite never having written--or even read--a biography herself. The next seven years of intimate conversations, intercontinental research, and peculiar cat-and-mouse games resulted in Samuel Beckett: A Biography, which went on to win the National Book Award and propel Deirdre to her next subject: Simone de Beauvoir. The catch? De Beauvoir and Beckett despised each other--and lived essentially on the same street. While quite literally dodging one subject or the other, and sometimes hiding out in the backrooms of the great cafes of Paris, Bair learned that what works in terms of process for one biography rarely applies to the next. Her seven-year relationship with the domineering and difficult de Beauvoir required a radical change in approach, yielding another groundbreaking literary profile. Drawing on Bair's extensive notes from the period, including never-before-told anecdotes and details that were considered impossible to publish at the time, Parisian Lives is full of personality and warmth and give us an entirely new window on the all-too-human side of these legendary thinkers"--
- "A memoir of the author's experience writing biographies of Samuel Beckett and Simone de Beauvoir"--
- Assigning source
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- Provided by publisher
- Provided by publisher
- Biography type
- autobiography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Bair, Deirdre
- Dewey number
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- 818/.5403
- B
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3602.A5635
- LC item number
- Z46 2019
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Bair, Deirdre
- Beckett, Samuel
- Beauvoir, Simone de
- Bair, Deirdre
- Beauvoir, Simone de
- Beckett, Samuel
- Women authors, American
- Authors, American
- Autobiography
- Biography as a literary form
- Authors, American
- Autobiography
- Biography as a literary form
- Psychology
- Women authors, American
- Label
- Parisian lives : Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and me : a memoir, Deirdre Bair
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- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1086566104
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- [368] pages
- Isbn
- 9780385542456
- Lccn
- 2019006879
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Label
- Parisian lives : Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and me : a memoir, Deirdre Bair
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1086566104
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- [368] pages
- Isbn
- 9780385542456
- Lccn
- 2019006879
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
Subject
- Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography
- Autobiography -- Women authors
- Autobiography -- Women authors
- Bair, Deirdre
- Bair, Deirdre
- Beauvoir, Simone de, 1908-1986
- Beauvoir, Simone de, 1908-1986 -- Psychology
- Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989
- 1900-1999
- Biographies
- Biography as a literary form
- Biography as a literary form
- Psychology
- Women authors, American
- Women authors, American -- Biography
- Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 -- Psychology
- Authors, American
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