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

We cannot say (to quote more examples from Sartre’s 1945 lecture) ‘I have never had a great love or a great friendship;