Andy Martin, author of The Boxer and the Goalkeeper, writes about the woman called Wanda who ended the “bromance” between Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus.
“Camus was the new kid on the block, confronted by the great metropolitan circle of critics and publishers and philosophers around Sartre – and yet he could score over the master with his ice-green eyes and don’t-give-a-damn charm. When they danced together right in front of Sartre, it was like a victory over the entire 700 pages of Being and Nothingness, his 1943 ‘essay on phenomenological ontology.'”
