Award-winning biographer Deirdre Bair explores her fifteen remarkable years in Paris with Samuel Beckett and Simone de Beauvoir, painting intimate new portraits of two literary giants.
Deirdre Bair Ordre des livres
21 juin 1935 – 17 avril 2020
Deirdre Bair est une biographe renommée dont le travail offre des aperçus profonds sur la vie et l'esprit d'individus exceptionnels. Sa narration magistrale plonge les lecteurs dans les complexités de la psychologie humaine et du processus créatif. Bair se concentre sur la découverte des motivations et des philosophies de ses sujets, créant non seulement des portraits, mais aussi des analyses littéraires approfondies. Ses œuvres sont estimées pour leur précision, leur puissance narrative et leur capacité à révéler les forces essentielles qui façonnent les vies et les héritages d'artistes et de penseurs importants.
- 2020
- 2004
Jung
- 900pages
- 32 heures de lecture
Freud's 'crown prince', Carl Gustav Jung eventually abandoned Freud's theory to form his own. As Freud's influence has waned, Jung's ideas have gained currency. This biography considers his life and ideas, exploring the accusations of anti-Semitism and misogyny by examining his own writings.
- 1995
Biography of controversial author Anaïs Nin, known for her erotic books and many affairs, especially the one with fellow writer Henry Miller, with information taken from Nin's extensive diaries and interviews with family, friends, and enemies
- 1990
Simone de Beauvoir
- 718pages
- 26 heures de lecture
This definitive biography is based on five years of interviews with de Beauvoir, and is written with her full cooperation. Bair penetrates the mystique of this brilliant and often paradoxical woman, who has been called one of the great minds of the 20th century, and surely, one of the most famously unconventional figures of her generation. "As a reference work . . . Simone de Beauvoir can be considered definitive."--The Atlantic. 16-page photographic insert.
- 1978
