At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others

by Sarah Bakewell

Colin Wilson, described having an encounter with raw Being that was ‘like waking up on a train and finding a stranger with his face within an inch of your own’.