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

Being and Nothingness, published in 1943, Sartre went on to give us many more pages about the physical quality of viscosité, or le visqueux — ‘viscosity’ or ‘gluey sliminess’.