Simone de Beauvoir 1965 · Paris
Evening writing
17:00–21:00
“go back to work and continue until nine.”
Short verbatim excerpt · Simone de Beauvoir · interview by Madeleine Gobeil
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InterviewOpen
The Art of Fiction No. 35
The Paris Review 34 · 1965 · Bernard Frechtman translation; publisher excerpt, 2022
Working-day question
Passage: Working-day answer · evening
Timing & context
A note on this hour
Both boundaries are stated.
1965 · Self-reported routine
She describes habitual work; afternoon writing was generally at Sartre’s apartment.
Routine around her 1965 interview.