Paris, near the turn of 1932-3. Three young friends meet over apricot cocktails
at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse. They are Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone
de Beauvoir and their friend Raymond Aron, who opens their eyes to a radical ne
w way of thinking..."It's not often that you miss your bus stop because you're s
o engrossed in reading a book about existentialism, but I did exactly that...The
story of Sartre, Beauvoir, Camus, Heidegger et al is strange, fun and compellin
g reading.
