She Came to Stay
1943 novel by Simone de Beauvoir
(publ. Secker & Warburg, 1949)
Cover art by Victor Reinganum
She Came to Stay (French, L'Invitée) is a novel written by French author Simone de Beauvoir first published in 1943. The novel is a fictional account of her and Jean-Paul Sartre's relationship with Olga Kosakiewicz and Wanda Kosakiewicz.
Plot
Set in Paris on the eve of and during World War II, the novel revolves around Françoise, whose open relationship with her partner Pierre becomes strained when they form a ménage à trois with her younger friend Xaviere. The novel explores many existentialist concepts such as freedom, angst, and the other.
Characters
- Françoise – considered to be Simone de Beauvoir
- Pierre – considered to be Jean-Paul Sartre
- Xaviere – considered to be a character combining elements of both Olga and Wanda Kosakiewicz
See also
- The Mandarins
- The Second Sex
- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Simone de Beauvoir
- When Things of the Spirit Come First (1937)
- She Came to Stay (1943)
- The Blood of Others (1945)
- All Men Are Mortal (1946)
- The Mandarins (1954)
- Pyrrhus and Cineas (1944)
- The Ethics of Ambiguity (1946)
- America Day by Day (1948)
- The Second Sex (1949)
- The Coming of Age (1970)
- Hélène de Beauvoir (sister)
- Sylvie Le Bon-de Beauvoir (adopted daughter)
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Place Jean-Paul-Sartre-et-Simone-de-Beauvoir
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